Andrew Ng

I think that, hundreds of years from now, if people invent a technology that we haven't heard of yet, maybe a computer could turn evil. But the future is so uncertain. I don't know what's going to happen five years from now. The reason I say that I don't worry about AI turning evil is the same reason I don't worry about overpopulation on Mars.

Chinese Scientist

Jeffrey Skoll

As a teenager I read a lot of books. Books with lots of scary trends, things like nuclear weapons and overpopulation and global diseases, and I thought, 'Wouldn't it be great to write stories that showed people these problems and that we could do something about them.

Canadian Businessman

B. F. Skinner

Must we wait for selection to solve the problems of overpopulation, exhaustion of resources, pollution of the environment and a nuclear holocaust, or can we take explicit steps to make our future more secure? In the latter case, must we not transcend selection?

American Psychologist

Jane Velez-Mitchell

There is a severe horse overpopulation crisis caused by overbreeding in the racing industry. It's time for that industry to accept responsibility for its castoffs and take dramatic action to protect a species that has so loyally served humankind.

American Journalist

Molly Ivins

You look at the large problems that we face - that would be overpopulation, water shortages, global warming and AIDS, I suppose - all of that needs international cooperation to be solved.

Alexandra Paul

The human overpopulation issue is the topic I see as the most vital to solve if our children and grandchildren are to have a good quality of life.

American Actress

Harri Holkeri

I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question.

Finnish Politician

Jacques Yves Cousteau

The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.

French Explorer

Dan Brown

Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future.

American Author

Bindi Irwin

I've been working a lot with Dick Smith on overpopulation.

Australian Actress

Typically used when discussing problems in cities where high population density creates stress on resources and infrastructure.

Urban Context

Often related to discussions on how a large number of people affects the environment negatively, like pollution and deforestation.

Environmental Impact

Used to express a shortage of necessities like water, food, and land because there are too many people.

Resource Scarcity

 who would have been young enough and healthy enough to benefit from those therapies, but will not be, because we haven't developed them as quickly as we could -- we'll be denying those people an indefinite life span, and I consider that that is immoral. That's my answer to the overpopulation question. Right. So the next thing is,

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 Now, I know some of you in this room find this to be a risky proposition. There are some people here who will turn around and be quite disillusioned by what's happened around the world and basically ascribe that to economic growth. You worry about the overpopulation of the planet.

Economic growth has...

 when they want to be reassuring. And the most common reason we're told not to worry is time. This is all a long way off, don't you know. This is probably 50 or 100 years away. One researcher has said, "Worrying about AI safety is like worrying about overpopulation on Mars."

Can we build AI without...

 for the question they were debating, anyway. As for the question itself, today, their focus on overpopulation represent a snapshot of history. Our understanding of what causes starvation and famine has we have the resources to support a growing human population,

The infamous overpopulati...

 -- for this gesture for humanity. And this is how they are promoting the product. This is -- I didn't touch it, this is original. Laptop use to solve overpopulation. And if everything failed, there are some secondary uses.

Yossi Vardi: Help fight...

 relationship to humankind these milestones serve as reminders of the world-changing impact of all that we do with all of you today our planet faces increasingly urgent challenges from overpopulation to climate change and

Explorers Festival,...

 annihilating human life as we know it is more likely than AI turning evil is and ruin put it working to prevent the AI from turning evil is like disrupting the space program to prevent overpopulation

Why we shouldn’t fear...

 like the risk of passing on hereditary illness, the danger of having to stop life-saving medication for the duration of your pregnancy, concern about overpopulation, your access to resources,

I don't want children --...

 human activities from pollution to overpopulation are driving up the earth's temperature and fundamentally changing the world around us the main cause is a phenomenon known as the

Causes and Effects of...

 Some historians believe the voyagers moved from place to place to avoid overpopulation. Others, that they were driven by war. Voyages became less frequent by around 1300 A.D.

Overpopulation