“In 2016, we didn’t understand what was now going to happen, but we understood that these algorithms were new and powerful.”

“The eventual state of this is the computers running all business processes… and they speak language among each other.”

“There’s a real limit in energy… 90 gigawatts is 90 nuclear power plants in America. Not happening. We’re building zero.”

“How do we invent something completely new? Today, our systems cannot do that.”

“We need provenance… but we also need to be able to observe it. To me, that’s a core requirement.”

“Stopping things in a globally competitive market doesn’t really work. We need to establish guardrails.”

“China is likely to be the leader in open source unless something changes… This proliferation is dangerous at the cyber level and the bio level.”

“There are legitimate people saying the only solution to this problem is preemption… probably five years. We have time for this conversation.”

“It’s very easy for a well-intentioned engineer to build a system which is optimized and restricts your freedom.”

“The arrival of this intelligence… is the most important thing that’s going to happen in about 500 years, maybe 1,000 years in human society.”

“Humans are unchanged in the midst of this incredible discovery… These tools will radically increase productivity.”

“We’re in this situation where the exponential is moving like this… My advice to you all is ride the wave, but ride it every day.”

“If you’re not using this technology, you’re not going to be relevant… Adopt it, and adopt it fast.”