Frank O'Hara Quotes

A satellite has no conscience.

I mean, technology is amoral. It has no morality.

Every technology that can improve the human condition could harm the human condition. Someone evil could program a robot to hurt people.

Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.

We have no choice but to be guilty. God is unthinkable if we are innocent.

Unlike us, machines do not have a 'nature' consistent across vast reaches of time. They are, at least to begin with, whatever we set in motion - with an inbuilt tendency towards the exponential.

A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.

Our technology has already outstripped our ability to control it.

Those who are innocent today may be guilty tomorrow.

With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon. In all those stories where there is the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, … he’s sure he can control the demon. But it doesn’t work out.

I would have thought technology would have made it harder to do what I did.

I believe this artificial intelligence is going to be our partner. If we misuse it, it will be a risk. If we use it right, it can be our partner.

AI is neither good nor evil. It's a tool. It's a technology for us to use.

Had laws not been, we never had been blam'd; For not to know we sinn'd is innocence.

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.

So I would only feel guilt if I misled somebody who was terrible.

If I could, Sister James, I would certainly choose to live in innocence. But innocence can only be wisdom in a world without evil. Situations arise and we are confronted with wrongdoing and the need to act.

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

To spare the guilty is to injure the innocent.

Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before—consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves. And it is best to fix our minds on that certainty, instead of considering what may be the elements of excuse for us.

Well, every little boy thinks he invented sin. Virtue we think we learn, because we are told about it. But sin is our own designing.

But magic is neither good nor evil. It is a tool, like a knife. Is a knife evil? Only if the wielder is evil.

Is a knife evil? Only if the wielder is evil.

You may not realize it, but artificial intelligence is all around us.