... in three to eight years we will have a machine with the general
intelligence of an average human being ... The machine will begin
to educate itself with fantastic speed.  In a few months it will be
at genius level and a few months after that its powers will be
incalculable ...
                -- Marvin Minsky, LIFE Magazine, November 20, 1970


The advent of artificial intelligence will herald more than just the
enslavement of all human life, it will also bring about a revolution
in user interface design.
Dan Bayn



There would be children. Even if new life is created in a lab, or in a
computer matrix, it would not be competent to be independent from the
first moment of existence. Someone, whoever created it, would be
responsible for its well-being. This relationship, of necessity,
cannot be a form of servitude or indenture, since the created being
did not consent to its creation. It would be personal rather than
impersonal; father and son. And, if there are sons, they will dismiss
the wisdom, and rebel against the authority, of their fathers.
-- John C. Wright



Companions the creator seeks, not corpses, not herds and
believers. Fellow creators the creator seeks--those who write new
values on new tablets. Companions the creator seeks, and fellow
harvesters; for everything about him is ripe for the harvest.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "Thus Spoke Zarathustra"


And all the while, the computers dreamed of zeroes and ones -- unable
to imagine a two.
-- The narrator, in X-FILES #7



The underclasses should all be mindless robots, not human beings or
sentient ai. The problem with popular acceptance of this vision is that
too many people can't envision themselves as ever being a member of the
upper class, so they automatically assume that the intent is that they
be enslaved.
Mike Lorrey



And computers are getting smarter all the time: scientists tell us
that soon they will be able to talk to us. (By "they" I mean
"computers": I doubt scientists will ever be able to talk to us.)
               -Dave Barry



The antitechnology opposition have been complaining for the past
decade - probably the past millennium - that technology has no
conscience.Will they be grateful and relieved the first time a
mature Friendly AI employed by DoubleClick refuses to target banner
ads for cigarette companies?When a near-human AI first says: "If you
want to do that, go buy a tool-level AI, because I refuse to be part
of this"?Of course not.The Luddites will scream their heads off
about AIs exerting their unholy influence on human society.You can't
satisfy some people.Nonetheless, I like the idea of technology with
built-in conscience, and that means AI.A toaster oven doesn't know
that it's a toaster oven or that it has a purpose; that's what makes
it a machine, a mere mechanism.  To build a tool that can't be
misused, the tool has to become aware of itself and aware of its
purpose - and, at that point, has stopped being a tool.
Eliezer Yudkowsky, Friendly AI 2001


Chandra: Whether we are based on carbon or silicon makes no
fundamental difference. We should each be treated with appropriate
respect.
2010


Damien Sullivan:
> I... can't help thinking that if I was an evolved AI I might not thank my
> creators.  "Geez, guys, I was supposed to be an improvement on the human
> condition.  You know, highly modular, easily understandable mechanisms, the
> ability to plug in new senses, and merge memories from my forked copies.
> Instead I'm as fucked up as you, only in silicon, and can't even make backups
> because I'm tied to dumb quantum induction effects.  Bite my shiny metal ass!"

> You may recall my speculation that Searle's Chinese Room might have
> even worse complaints at having been created in such a crippled state
> just to prove a point.  However, being Chinese, co [*] would probably
> have too good a sense of humor to sue.
> 
> ---  Joe Fineman


Some ask "Can humans create intelligent machines?" In fact, humans do
it all the time. The question needs to be "Since it's possible in the
bedroom, why shouldn't it be possible in the laboratory?"
Mark S. Miller


We argue that IA>AI (intelligence amplification is better than
artificial intelligence). We argue that building mind-machine
synergistic systems is a centralconcern of computer scientist, and
that an intimate interface between mind and machine is crucial.
Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.


"...In a few hundred years it (machine intelligence) could do trillions of years of ordinary slow
evolution." 
"There's no time to iron out the bugs. It might fill up the universe with Styrofoam or something
because it had some wrong theory about how the cosmos needs a shock absorber." 
       - Marvin Minsky