David Hanson

“If we're going to achieve compassion in the machines and also feel safe with the machines, to raise machines with human-like values, we need to make them human-like by simulating, or perhaps...”

“The perception of identity is so intimately bound up with the perception of the human form.”

“I have been motivated by this idea since I was a kid that if we invented machines that were created in the way that people are - were aware, have free will, inventive machines, machines that...”

“I was always into science fiction as a kid. I loved science and tinkering with things.”