Quotes
In the September 1965 issue of Soviet Life, he made the following statement regarding prospects for the future of humanity:
- Profound crises lie in wait for a developing civilization and one of them may well prove fatal. We are already familiar with several such critical (situations):
- (a) Self-destruction as a result of a thermonuclear catastrophe or some other discovery which may have unpredictable and uncontrollable consequences.
- (b) Genetic danger.
- (c) Overproduction of information.
- (d) Restricted capacity of the individual's brain which can lead to excessive specialization, with consequent dangers of degeneration.
- (e) A crisis precipitated by the creation of artificial intelligent beings.
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