Scary Smart: Scary Smart: The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World

The Technology Development Curve represents the typical progress made for a new technology over time. It looks like a standard hockey stick chart, which is normally used to describe events that accelerate rapidly after a specific “breakout point”– only, with tech development, the handle of the stick is almost horizontal.

It’s not the seed, it’s the field that makes us who we are.

Consciousness is a state in which a being is aware of itself and its perceptible surroundings.

Ethics are not a trait reserved exclusively for humanity.

If consciousness is a state of awareness of our physical universe, then . . . . . . the machines may well be more conscious than we’ll ever be.

ethical behaviour, at its core, is a survival mechanism.

the third inevitable – because we always screw things up, even though we try to hide it – is that errors and mistakes will be made. Then, when these are ironed out, because power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely, there is a very high likelihood – unless we change course – that the machines will not behave in our best interests.

Soon we will no longer be part of the conversation. Machines will only deal with other machines.

then Intel CEO, Gordon Moore. In his original paper, he predicted a doubling of the number of components per integrated circuit every year, which he then revised, in 1975, to every two years. In the same year, Moore’s colleague, Intel executive David House, noted that Moore’s revised law of doubling transistor count every two years in turn implied