“Building a controlled human-level general intelligence that would precisely protect human values is an incredibly difficult and daunting, but immensely important and urgent task. [I]t’s impossible to grasp that in some corner of the Universe there could be this one tiny planet that just happens to spawn replicators that over billions of painful years of natural selection happen to create vast amounts of both increasingly intelligent and sentient beings, some of which happen to become just intelligent enough to soon have a one shot at creating this final invention of god-like machines that could turn the whole Universe into either a likely hell or unlikely utopia. And here we are, a tiny fraction of those almost “just intelligent enough” beings, contemplating this thing that’s likely to happen within our lifetimes and realizing that the chance of either scenario coming true may hinge on what we do. What are the odds?!”