“In the next century, we will be inventing radical new technologies - machine intelligence, perhaps nanotech, great advances in synthetic biology and other things we haven't even thought of yet. And those new powers will unlock wonderful opportunities, but they might also bring with them certain risks. And we have no track record of surviving those risks. So if there are big existential risks, I think they are going to come from our own activities and mostly from our own inventiveness and creativity.” ThinkingOpportunityCreativityTechnologyWonderfulRiskTrackRadicalBiologyExistentialSurvivingNew TechnologyInventiveness Author:Nick Bostrom
“The greatest existential risks over the coming decades or century arise from certain, anticipated technological breakthroughs that we might make in particular, machine super intelligence, nanotechnology and synthetic biology. Each of these has an enormous potential for improving the human condition by helping cure disease, poverty, etc. But one could imagine them being misused, used to create powerful weapon systems, or even some kind of accidental destructive scenario, where we suddenly are in possession of some technology that's far more powerful than we are able to control or use wisely.” KindHelpingPowerfulPovertyTechnologyImagineRiskPossessionBiologyHuman ConditionExistentialTechnologicalBreakthroughMisused Author:Nick Bostrom
“It’s unlikely that any of those natural hazards will do us in within the next 100 years if we’ve already survived 100,000. By contrast, we are introducing, through human activity, entirely new types of dangers by developing powerful new technologies. We have no record of surviving those.” IfsYearsHumansNextNaturalPowerfulTechnologyRecordsDangerTypeActivityDevelopingContrastIntroducingSurvivedUnlikelySurvivingHazardsNew TechnologyHuman Activity Author:Nick Bostrom
