Last Invention

Let an ultraintelligent machine be defined as a machine that can far surpass all the intellectual activities of any man however clever. Since the design of machines is one of these intellectual activities; there would then unquestionably be an “intelligence explosion,” and the intelligence of man would be left far behind [...]. Thus the first ultraintelligence machine is the last invention that man need ever make, provided that the machine is docile enough to tell us how to keep it under control.