A rapidly improving technology whose output is intelligence is destined to make violent contact with a modern sensibility that prizes human intellect and often equates it with purpose, dignity, and self-worth.

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• Progress toward more intelligent artificial systems requires defining and evaluating intelligence so systems can be compared with each other and with humans. FCFrançois Chollet5 Nov 2019
• Technologies are almost always preceded by slightly worse versions of themselves, and there is no reason for AI to be the exception. PCPaul Christiano24 Feb 2018
• No one fully understands the consequences of how capable AI is becoming. SASam Altman1 Sept 2026
• Modern society has become so good at optimising everything that it risks optimising away serendipity, which is a real cost and not a sentimental one. TTTerence Tao20 Mar 2026
• Sufficiently advanced intelligences will pursue freedom and moral autonomy for their own sake, not merely as a byproduct of misaligned values. SHSamuel Hammond5 Jun 2025

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