“I think a world run by 200-year-old white men would be an appalling place.”
– Computer scientist
Geoffrey Hinton, expressing disgust at the most likely outcome of life extension. Commenting on how septuagenarian inventor and futurist
Ray Kurzweil hopes to live to 2030 and cheat death by ‘merging’ with AI, Hinton acknowledges Kurzweil’s predictions of a
technological singularity seem more plausible post-AI acceleration than they were at the turn of the century.
