Oren Etzioni Quotes

If you and your skills are a complement to the computer, your wage and labor market prospects are likely to be cheery. If your skills do not complement the computer, you may want to address that mismatch. Ever more people are starting to fall on one side of the divide or the other. That's why 'average is over.'

The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage.

I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans' natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology.

Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more and more powerful, it will kill off all middle-class professions.

We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.

Displacement by technology has probably occurred since the invention of the shovel.

If manufacturing jobs do come back to the U.S., they will be done by robots in hi-tech parts of the country rather than the Rust Belt states.

Over a long period of time, technological change is something that has been important in reducing manufacturing employment - absolutely and as a share of jobs in the economy.

The robots are coming, whether we like it or not, and will change our economy in dramatic ways.

I'm so tired of cyberpunk that says using machines to make your life better makes you less human.

I don't think that artificial intelligence means doomsday, and I think many new jobs will be created, too. However, it is becoming increasingly unlikely that these new types of jobs will favor low-income demographics. We need to address the needs of those who will be left out of the new job market.

Living in a time of the increasing struggle of the mechanization of man, photography has become another example of this paradoxical problem of how to humanize, how to overcome a machine on which we are thoroughly dependent... the camera.

I believe more than ever, machines will put new challenges, and that means we'll have to be more creative and more human, because that's the way to make the difference.

Ours is a time of the machine, and ours is a need to know that the machine can be put to creative human effort. If not, the machine can destroy us.

This is an anxiety driven world - the whole world is driven by anxiety. It is anxiety about the aftermath of the global financial crisis; it's anxiety about inequality and about computers replacing jobs.

Terminator' is a reflection of how the world is changing.

I don't think Cyborg has ever felt the aggressiveness and the power that I will bring to her.

The technological revolution has the potential to liberate us or enslave us, and the road we take will depend on our politics.

Swarms are one very simple way of keeping ourselves ahead of the machines.

I think of AI itself as a monster of capitalism.

I could do a whole talk on the question of is AI dangerous.' My response is that AI is not going to exterminate us. It's a tool that's going to empower us.

We should never forget that in the smartphone, the smart part is us creators.

I believe that society needs to confront this question before it is upon us: If machines are capable of doing almost any work humans can do, what will humans do?

It's only a matter of time before machinery becomes sentient. It's going to happen because we're already slaves to all of it.

We will not only use the machines for their intelligence, we will also collaborate with them in ways that we cannot even imagine.