Kevin Kelly quotes on AI, with sources
Co-founder, Wired · 6 quotes · latest Sep 7, 2026
- As LLMs continue to scale up, the value of any particular source continues to diminish.
- Much, if not most, of the value of LLMs derives from their ability to generate new benefits beyond what the source material alone can yield.
- But a secondary revolution will come from using AI as a microscope: we will use it to see our own minds.
- Despite the great strides scientists have made in producing AI, we have no theory of intelligence.
- I’d bet we learn more about our own brains from building a thousand AIs under a real theory of intelligence than we’ve learned from a century of neuroscience.
- In the long term the instrument of AI will probably exceed the importance of the microscope, telescope and cyclotron combined.