« AI will compete with many human activities. The obsolescence of the current brain becomes more than a fear: an obvious one. »

« The electric helicopter lands smoothly on the roof of the Googleplex. Sergey Brin leaps out of the camera. As every morning, his personal assistant and three bodyguards were waiting for him. A light rain was falling on Palo Alto. Sergey ignored the shelter of an umbrella offered to him by one of the guards and walked briskly towards the entrance. "Good morning, Mr. President," said his assistant, speeding up the step by his side. Did your trip to Europe go well? "I didn't sleep well. These damn turbulences... They entered the new wing of the Googleplex, the best-kept building in the United States, built on a former U.S. Air Force airfield. The huge reinforced concrete building had the size of five football fields and had six levels, three of which were in the basement. All the digital information in the world passed through the three million servers that were whirring in its bowels. The digital heart of humanity beat in this cathedral of fiber optics from every city, every street, from the genome of every connected individual. »

« Nothing we do is truly altruistic: we always act to have psychic secondary benefits. Increasing our brain production of endorphins is our only driver. But this troubling observation should not lead to being misanthropic and cynical: just because one is altruistic by neurobiological selfishness does not mean that one should not be. »