James Woods Quotes

Technology and robotics are advancing and will reduce the need for workers in the future.

The world of A.D. 2014 will have few routine jobs that cannot be done better by some machine than by any human being. Mankind will therefore have become largely a race of machine tenders.

Artificial Intelligence is one of those areas where we should be proactive in controlling it rather than reactive. If we are reactive, by the time we will do the necessary things, it will be too late. Robots can do everything better than we [humans] can.

I think of AI itself as a monster of capitalism.

Make no mistake about why these babies are here - they are here to replace us.

Let's not kid ourselves here, robots already run most of our world. We'll be their butlers soon enough.

In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.

The role of humans as the most important factor of production is bound to diminish in the same way that the role of the horse in agricultural production.

It won’t be long before we all number synthetic creatures among our friends.

R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)

At the end of the day, the truth is that if - when - robots prevail, so many vocations will actually become close to impossible. Save for the profession of making robots, that is.

I think that technology is the best thing that ever happened to mankind. It's an absurd notion that somehow, 'My God, what are we going to do when driverless cars come along?' It's going to save lives on the road. And maybe, one day, we'll all be working four days a week and not five or six days a week.

The message behind 'Time Is Up' is that robots are starting to take over the world, and we should be aware of it because they're already walking among us.

I don't think the robots are taking over. I think the men who play with toys have taken over. And if we don't take the toys out of their hands, we're fools.

The best computer is a man, and it’s the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.

Technological change is both familiar and easy to observe.

Pretty soon we'll have robots in our society, you're going to have a lot of automated processes that used to be done by people - this is happening. Society and technology is changing so fast, and the impact of the change on society and technology is global, not local.

Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.

I think I'd take a human butler over a robot one.

I particularly felt that my job in management was safe from the incursion of machines with friendly faces painted on the front of their heads, or whatever you call the metal constructions atop their shoulders, if those are indeed shoulders.

I just want the future to happen faster. I can't imagine the future without robots.

Robots have gotten steadily more capable, but humans' expectations that robots should have minds keeps biting robot developers.

I see technology as being an extension of the human body.

The concept of the robot encapsulates both aspects of technology. On one hand it's cool, it's fun, it's healthy, it's sexy, it's stylish. On the other hand it's terrifying, it's alienating, it's addictive, and it's scary. That has been the subject of much science-fiction literature.

We are entering a new phase in human history - one in which fewer and fewer workers will be needed to produce the goods and services for the global population.