# Vitalik Buterin **Born:** January 31, 1994 **Domain:** Ethereum / cryptoeconomics / technological philosophy **Doc Type:** Person Node **Vitalik Buterin** is a co-founder of Ethereum and an author on decentralized systems, defensive acceleration, artificial intelligence and human agency. His writing distinguishes accelerating autonomous machine power from technologies that preserve or enlarge individual human participation, including paths toward human superintelligence. ## Routes [[wiki/Human Superintelligence|Human Superintelligence]] · [[wiki/Human Agency|Human Agency]] · [[wiki/Transhumanism|Transhumanism]] · [[wiki/Human-Machine Merger|Human-Machine Merger]] ## Official source - [Vitalik Buterin’s website](https://vitalik.eth.limo/) ## Simple Reminders, Quotations, and Thoughts > “If you accept that superintelligence is going to run the world—because superintelligence is just so much more powerful than regular intelligence that it’s just obvious that it’s going to do that—then the question is: is it AI superintelligence, or is it human superintelligence? Human superintelligence seems like the correct answer if we want to retain our agency. And if we want human superintelligence, then the question is, what is the path to actually getting there?” > **— Vitalik Buterin**, *80,000 Hours interview, July 26, 2024* [[reminders/Neural Interfaces/Human Superintelligence Is the Path to Retaining Human Agency by Vitalik Buterin|Human Superintelligence Is the Path to Retaining Human Agency by Vitalik Buterin]]