Similar to the monthly Rationality Quotes threads, this is a thread for memorable quotes about Artificial General Intelligence.
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Albert Einstein
Looking more closely, this much-duplicated "quote" seems to be a paraphrase of something he wrote in a letter to Heinrich Zaggler in the context of the first world war: "Our entire much-praised technological progress, and civilization generally, could be compared to an axe in the hand of a pathological criminal."
I do think about the AGI problem in much this way, though. E.g. in Just Babies, Paul Bloom wrote:
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