"The greatest danger is not that AI will become evil, but that it will become too good at optimizing for something we don't really want."

"The most interesting place in the world from a religious perspective is Silicon Valley."

"Google and Facebook will be able to hack the human brain."

"Democracy is in crisis because it no longer provides answers to the big questions of the day."

"In the twenty-first century, fiction might become the most potent force on earth."