Pavel Durov Quotes

Technology is an interesting subject, people thinking: how much good, and how much bad, does it inherently carry?

All attempts to adapt our ethical code to our situation in the technological age have failed.

We are in a tech-heavy society, plunging headlong into an unknown future. Science fiction is what allows you to stand back and analyze the impact of that and put it in context of how it affects people.

I grew up before computers. Computers are changing things, not all for the good.

So one begins to wonder what is going to happen to the human race. Technology keeps on advancing with greater and greater power, either for good or for destruction.

Like gods, we have created a new universe called cyberspace that contains great good and ominous evil. We do not know yet if this new dimension will produce more monsters than marvels, but it is too late to go back.

I believe that people are too complacent about technology.

A lot of my films have dealt with the dark side of technology and stress that you have to examine the ramifications of progress.

Technologists provide tools that can improve people's lives. But I want to be clear that I don't think technology by itself improves people's lives, since often I'm criticized for being too pro-technology. Unless there's commensurate ethical and moral improvements to go along with it, it's for naught.

Our technology has already outstripped our ability to control it.

Technology will move faster than governments, so don't legislate before you understand the consequences.

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

I don't think that technology is going to allow for greater subjugation of people. I think it's gonna give them more freedom.

A movie like 'Transcendence' may be pertinent in its political reverberations of all computer data held in a cloud and monitored by the NSA, but it also rails against the tools its makers so artfully employ.

It is important to recognise that, alongside the huge benefits that artificial intelligence offers, there are potential ethical issues associated with some uses.

The digitization of our society is a challenge that is both legislative and philosophical.

Name any issue in the world, I can tell you how technology is intertwined with it. I can tell you how technology will make it better. How it can make it worse. It needs to be part of everything that we do, whether you are a government or a company or a citizen.

The question I want to put forward is, 'Does the technology we are developing ultimately benefit mankind?'

In the area of robotics and in the area of connectivity, technology is offering us things that we are vulnerable to - and we have to have a better response than a shrug.

It is possible to think that the Internet will be a net positive for society while admitting that there are significant downsides - after all, it's not a revolution if nobody loses.

The world is a tougher place to live in than it was back then, as we come into the computer age.

Technology without hatred can be a blessing. Technology with hatred is always a disaster.

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.

Faced with the profound changes that AI technologies can produce, pressure for "more" and "tougher" regulation is inevitable. Misunderstanding about what AI is and is not, especially against a background of scare-mongering, could fuel opposition to technologies that could benefit everyone. This would be a tragic mistake. Regulation that stifles innovation, or relocates it to other jurisdictions, would be similarly counterproductive.

Technologies are never neutral, and some are hurtful.