Feel the ASI

I encourage everyone to follow developments in AI as much as possible. It's the most transformative innovation any of us will see in our lifetimes, and a healthy public debate will depend on everyone being knowledgeable about the technology, its benefits, and its risks.

Of all the things humans have ever created, AI will change society the most. It will help solve many of our current problems while also bringing new challenges very different from past innovations.

Machine learning will have a huge influence, it will be comparable with the industrial revolution. But instead of exceeding people in physical strength, it's going to exceed people in intellectual ability.

I think it's quite conceivable that humanity is just a passing phase in the evolution of intelligence.

[AI is] going to be 10 times bigger than the Industrial Revolution, and maybe 10 times faster.

The thing that is not talked about enough, but is coming to your neighborhood faster than you think: this AI revolution is not made up. It's not overhyped.

I guarantee you, you're going to start seeing shifts in white collar work as a consequence of what these new AI models can do. And so that's going to be more disruption, and it's going to speed up.

If we're going to deal with this AI revolution in a smart way... it is going to start with a reaffirmation of our ability to work collectively together.

At this moment, we face the extraordinary prospect of a new industrial revolution, one on par with the invention of the steam engine or Bessemer steel.

We are past the event horizon; the takeoff has started. Humanity is close to building digital superintelligence.

We are still profoundly underreacting [on AI], and we are dangerously underprepared. The terms of what it is like to be a human are about to change in ways that rival the transformations of the Enlightenment or the Industrial Revolution, only much more quickly.

Unless we learn how to prepare for, and avoid, the potential risks, AI could be the worst event in the history of our civilization. It brings dangers, like powerful autonomous weapons, or new ways for the few to oppress the many. It could bring great disruption to our economy.

[Powerful AI could be like] a country of geniuses in a datacenter.

Humanity is about to be handed almost unimaginable power, and it is deeply unclear whether our social, political, and technological systems possess the maturity to wield it.

[AI is] the most consequential technology in the history of humanity.

The science-fiction fear of AI running the world is not quite so outrageous a concept as people may have thought it was.

[By 2035] we are definitely going to have digital superintelligence as a collaborator for all of us. That is going to be a reality.

And mark my words, AI is far more dangerous than nukes. Far. So why do we have no regulatory oversight? This is insane.

AI is the rare case where I think we need to be proactive in regulation instead of reactive. Because I think by the time we are reactive in AI regulation, it'll be too late.