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Top 10 James Barrat Quotes (2025 Update)

James Barrat Quote: “In 1970, AI pioneer Marvin Minsky said, “In from three to eight years we will have a machine with the general intelligence of an average human being.”

1. “In 1970, AI pioneer Marvin Minsky said, “In from three to eight years we will have a machine with the general intelligence of an average human being.”

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James Barrat Quote: “The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else. – Eliezer Yudkowsky, research fellow, Machine Intelligence Research Institute.”

2. “The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else. – Eliezer Yudkowsky, research fellow, Machine Intelligence Research Institute.”

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James Barrat Quote: “I’ve written this book to warn you that artificial intelligence could drive mankind into extinction, and to explain how that catastrophic outcome is not just possible, but likely if we do not begin preparing very carefully now.”

3. “I’ve written this book to warn you that artificial intelligence could drive mankind into extinction, and to explain how that catastrophic outcome is not just possible, but likely if we do not begin preparing very carefully now.”

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James Barrat Quote: “Is knowledge the same thing as intelligence? No, but knowledge is an intelligence amplifier, if intelligence is, among other things, the ability to act nimbly and powerfully in your environment.”

4. “Is knowledge the same thing as intelligence? No, but knowledge is an intelligence amplifier, if intelligence is, among other things, the ability to act nimbly and powerfully in your environment.”

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James Barrat Quote: “More than any other time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly. – Woody Allen.”

5. “More than any other time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly. – Woody Allen.”

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James Barrat Quote: “According to Steve Omohundro, some drives like self-preservation and resource acquisition are inherent in all goal-driven systems.”

6. “According to Steve Omohundro, some drives like self-preservation and resource acquisition are inherent in all goal-driven systems.”

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James Barrat Quote: “With the possible exception of nanotechnology being released upon the world there is nothing in the whole catalogue of disasters that is comparable to AGI. – Eliezer Yudkowsky, Research Fellow, Machine Intelligence Research Institute.”

7. “With the possible exception of nanotechnology being released upon the world there is nothing in the whole catalogue of disasters that is comparable to AGI. – Eliezer Yudkowsky, Research Fellow, Machine Intelligence Research Institute.”

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James Barrat Quote: “But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will. Even if all the governments of the world were to understand the “threat” and be in deadly fear of it, progress toward the goal would continue. In fact, the competitive advantage – economic, military, even artistic – of every advance in automation is so compelling that passing laws, or having customs, that forbid such things merely assures that someone else will. – Vernor Vinge, The Coming Technological Singularity, 1993.”

8. “But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will. Even if all the governments of the world were to understand the “threat” and be in deadly fear of it, progress toward the goal would continue. In fact, the competitive advantage – economic, military, even artistic – of every advance in automation is so compelling that passing laws, or having customs, that forbid such things merely assures that someone else will. – Vernor Vinge, The Coming Technological Singularity, 1993.”

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James Barrat Quote: “Pushing forward his own project, the peripatetic Goertzel divides his time between Hong Kong and Rockville, Maryland. On.”

9. “Pushing forward his own project, the peripatetic Goertzel divides his time between Hong Kong and Rockville, Maryland. On.”

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$James Barrat Quote: “In information technologies, each breakthrough pushes the next breakthrough to occur more quickly – the curve we talked about gets steeper. So when considering the iPad 2 the question isn’t what we can expect in the next fifteen years. Instead, look out for what happens in a fraction of that time. By about 2020, Kurzweil estimates we’ll own laptops with the raw processing power of human brains, though not the intelligence.”$

10. “In information technologies, each breakthrough pushes the next breakthrough to occur more quickly – the curve we talked about gets steeper. So when considering the iPad 2 the question isn’t what we can expect in the next fifteen years. Instead, look out for what happens in a fraction of that time. By about 2020, Kurzweil estimates we’ll own laptops with the raw processing power of human brains, though not the intelligence.”

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James Barrat Quote: “The strongest argument for why advanced AI needs a body may come from its learning and development phase – scientists may discover it’s not possible to “grow” AGI without some kind of body.”

11. “The strongest argument for why advanced AI needs a body may come from its learning and development phase – scientists may discover it’s not possible to “grow” AGI without some kind of body.”

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James Barrat Quote: “An agent which sought only to satisfy the efficiency, self-preservation, and acquisition drives would act like an obsessive paranoid sociopath,” writes Omohundro in “The Nature of Self-Improving Artificial Intelligence.”

12. “An agent which sought only to satisfy the efficiency, self-preservation, and acquisition drives would act like an obsessive paranoid sociopath,” writes Omohundro in “The Nature of Self-Improving Artificial Intelligence.”

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James Barrat Quote: “Like genetic algorithms, ANNs are “black box” systems. That is, the inputs – the network weights and neuron activations – are transparent. And what they output is understandable. But what happens in between? Nobody understands. The output of “black box” artificial intelligence tools can’t ever be predicted. So they can never be truly and verifiably “safe.”

13. “Like genetic algorithms, ANNs are “black box” systems. That is, the inputs – the network weights and neuron activations – are transparent. And what they output is understandable. But what happens in between? Nobody understands. The output of “black box” artificial intelligence tools can’t ever be predicted. So they can never be truly and verifiably “safe.”

— James Barrat

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