Oren Etzioni Quotes

Society is now at a crucial juncture in determining how to deploy AI-based technologies in ways that promote rather than hinder democratic values such as freedom, equality, and transparency.

I do think there should be some regulations on AI.

There are many valid concerns about AI, from its impact on jobs to its uses in autonomous weapons systems and even to the potential risk of superintelligence.

The amount of money and industrial energy that has been put into accelerating AI code has meant that there hasn't been as much energy put into thinking about social, economic, ethical frameworks for these systems. We think there's a very urgent need for this to happen faster.

There is a lot of work out there to take people out of the loop in things like medical diagnosis. But if you are taking humans out of the loop, you are in danger of ending up with a very cold form of AI that really has no sense of human interest, human emotions, or human values.

I often tell my students not to be misled by the name 'artificial intelligence' - there is nothing artificial about it. AI is made by humans, intended to behave by humans, and, ultimately, to impact humans' lives and human society.

In the past, much power and responsibility over life and death was concentrated in the hands of doctors. Now, this ethical burden is increasingly shared by the builders of AI software.

AI is a tool. The choice about how it gets deployed is ours.

I believe in human-centered AI to benefit people in positive and benevolent ways.

It's paradoxical that things that are hard for people are easy for the computer, and things that are hard for the computer, any child can understand.

I would argue that racism, for example, is a feature of machine learning - it's not a bug.

My dream is to achieve AI for the common good.

I spent a lot of time wondering about the future. I am curious: when we have AI, and it becomes more mainstream, how is that going to affect the way we communicate with each other?

We believe the future of computing should be natural.

Computers add convenience to our everyday lives, but we are limited in what we can do with technology others have imagined. The ability for humans to teach machines entirely new things - coding - is nothing short of a superpower.

It's about time we stopped asking what the computer can do for us and instead ask ourselves what we can do for the computer.

I'm not Borg Two, I'm Wilander One.

I never viewed technology as a replacement for the human experience. I viewed it as something that could liberate the human experience.

With Emotion AI, we can inject humanity back into our connections, enabling not only our devices to better understand us, but fostering a stronger connection between us as individuals.

The pencil and computer are, if left to their own devices, equally dumb and only as good as the person driving them.

Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.

Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind.

We all have friends we love dearly that couldn't pass for human in a strict Turing test.

When developers of digital technologies design a program that requires you to interact with a computer as if it were a person, they ask you to accept in some corner of your brain that you might also be conceived of as a program.

The computer will live your life, listen to you and understand you better than humans can.