AI doesn't have to be evil to destroy humanity - if AI has a goal and humanity just happens to be in the way, it will destroy humanity as a matter of course without even thinking about it.

By far the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it.

We're entering a new world where the competitive advantage no longer comes from processing power, but from asking better questions.

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

AI will not replace managers, but managers who use AI will replace those who don't.

Artificial intelligence is the new electricity. Just as electricity transformed countless industries, AI will now do the same.

The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it.

We're approaching a time when machines will be able to outperform humans at almost any task. I think that's either the best or worst thing ever to happen to humanity.

AI doesn't reduce the importance of human experts - it elevates it. The real value comes from the intersection of human wisdom and machine intelligence.

The danger of artificial intelligence isn't malice but competence. A superintelligent AI will be extremely good at accomplishing its goals, and if those goals aren't aligned with ours, we're in trouble.

We're not waiting for AI to become conscious; we're watching it become competent. And competence without consciousness may be the most disruptive force in human history.

The first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make, provided that the machine is docile enough to tell us how to keep it under control.

AI is like a mirror that reflects back to us our own intelligence, our biases, and our limitations.

The most successful AI won't be the one that replaces humans, but the one that amplifies human capabilities.

We're building systems that can learn, but we haven't yet built systems that understand why they should care about what they learn.

Artificial intelligence will reach human levels by around 2029. Follow that out further to, say, 2045, and we will have multiplied the intelligence, the human biological machine intelligence of our civilization a billion-fold.

The alignment problem isn't about making AI obey us; it's about making AI understand what we really want, which is much harder than it sounds.

AI doesn't dream, but it does optimize. And therein lies both its power and its peril.

We're creating tools that can outperform us in specific domains, but we're still the only ones who can decide which domains matter.

The ghost in the machine was never a soul - it was always just exceptionally well-organized information.

AI forces us to confront the most fundamental question: What is it about human intelligence that's actually valuable?

We're not building artificial people; we're building artificial colleagues. The relationship is what matters.