“Human beings are not perfect, but at least for now it is only human beings who think this. It is we who have this conception that we are flawed. You will not find that judgement written upon the stars or mountains, they are not minds, they cannot think. It is we who have a sense of a direction that we are going in, and giving up, shrugging will not push us forward in that direction.”

— Eliezer Yudkowsky, The Challenge of Friendly AI (Singularity Summit, 2007)