T-Minus AI Quotes

“If you don't think you're paying for it, that just means you're not the customer -- you're the product.”
― Michael Kanaan, T-Minus AI: Humanity's Countdown to Artificial Intelligence and the New Pursuit of Global Power

“To put the slow pace of our intellectual innovations into perspective, we didn’t invent the wheel until 5,000 to 6,000 years ago. Think about that. Over the entire timeline of Homo sapiens’ existence, and as the most advanced and only remaining of all human species, it took 194,000 of our 200,000 total years on Earth to finally piece together the idea and method of putting a round object to a constructive, locomotive use.”
― Michael Kanaan, T-Minus AI: Humanity's Countdown to Artificial Intelligence and the New Pursuit of Global Power

“a full 97 percent of our species’ evolutionary timeline just to innovate a mechanical means of rolling something rather than pushing, pulling, or carrying it.”
― Michael Kanaan, T-Minus AI: Humanity's Countdown to Artificial Intelligence and the New Pursuit of Global Power