Automation Benefits Quotes

The promise of artificial intelligence and computer science generally vastly outweighs the impact it could have on some jobs in the same way that, while the invention of the airplane negatively affected the railroad industry, it opened a much wider door to human progress.

I see no reason to suppose that these machines will ever force themselves into general use.

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.

Personally, I'm not afraid of a robot uprising. The benefits far outweigh the threats.

Are those 'terrible' machines really putting those people out of work? Or are they getting rid of a really dull job that we shouldn't be torturing people with?

The story of automation is the story of a one-way shift from human control to automatic control.

You know that clicker? It's going to change the world more than any other thing.

Technology is advancing at breakneck speed, upending old ways of doing business and resetting the social contract between employers and employees.

For the blue-collar worker, the driving force behind change was factory automation using programmable machine tools. For the office worker, it's office automation using computer technology: enterprise-resource-planning systems, groupware, intranets, extranets, expert systems, the Web, and e-commerce.

Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.

Technology is an incredible tool - it connects people to each other, creates jobs all over the world, and makes life easier for millions of Americans.

Tech can be something that can be great for us. We don't need to fear it.

Automation is good, so long as you know exactly where to put the machine.

At its best, technology can empower people in extraordinary ways.

Machines can do things cheaper and better. We're very used to that in banking, for example. ATM machines are better than tellers if you want a simple transaction. They're faster, they're less trouble, they're more reliable, so they put tellers out of work.

The benefits of having robots could vastly outweigh the problems.

We have to face the fact that countries are going to lose jobs to robotics. The only question that needs to be answered is which country will create and own the best robotic technology and have the infrastructure necessary to enable it.

I see robotic technology getting rid of the dangerous, the dirty, and the just plain boring jobs. Some people say, 'You can't. People won't have anything to do.' But we found things that were a lot easier than backbreaking labor in the sun and the fields. Let people rise to better things.

That's what technology does to you - makes you lazy but allows you to innovate.

Robots allow our employees to work safely, faster, and at less cost.

When a machine can do something better and faster than a person can, I am happy to let the machine do it.

The self-driving car is coming. And right now, our best supply of organs come from car accidents... Once we have self-driving cars, we can actually reduce the number of accidents, but the next problem then would be organ replacement.

Machines and their development provide the greatest opportunity in the whole history of mankind to improve the lot of the individual human being.

When we automated away the elevator operator function, who knew that all the descendants of those operators would become social media marketers, machine learning engineers, and all these other jobs that we didn't even have a language to describe back then.