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Brian Greene
Brian Greene is a theoretical physicist, string theorist, author, and science communicator.
Circuit updated September 17, 2026
Notable quotes
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“We physicists, we should choose the final problems that we work on because within a few years we'll be out of business because the AI systems will just be doing it all.”
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“Putting that kind of power in such a small number of hands has historically not with AI but with other power structures not always turned out well”
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“the problem with exponentials is that they grow so quickly that by the time you see them, it's too late to do anything about it”
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“it's one thing, you know, to pull the plug on a on a light bulb. It's another thing to pull the plug on a sentient system.”
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“there isn't necessarily an unlimited capacity of that kind of artificial intelligence to continue to improve, right?”
Brian Greene · The Diary of a CEO
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