Responsible Innovation Quotes

We need a science to save us from science.

Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

Everything is fraught with danger. I love technology and I love science. It's just always all in the way you use it. So there's no - you can't really blame anything on the technology. It's just the way people use it, and it always has been.

Only by developing a deeper understanding of AI systems as they act in the world can we ensure that this new infrastructure never turns toxic.

We talk a lot about building benevolent technology. Our technology reflects our values.

When will people learn that just because you can make something doesn’t mean you should?

Limits have to be set on how far one can simply use the... cleverness that we have to make changes.

It is deeply against my principles to work on any project that I think is to weaponize AI.

We pray that every field of science may contribute in bringing happiness - not disaster - to human beings.

Every technology is used before it is completely understood. We are living in that lag, and it is a right time to keep our head.

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.

We need to make sure that we are using technology, and technology is not using us.

There is an ever-widening gap between what science allows and what we should actually do. There are many doors science can open that should be kept closed, on prudential or ethical grounds.

Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good.

To take intellectual risks is to think about something that can't be done, that doesn't make any sense, and go for it responsibly.

Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good. That is impossible. Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things.

There seems scarcely any limit to what could be done in the way of producing a good world, if only men would use science wisely.

In California, we have some of the strongest consumer protection laws in the country. While it is easy to conceive of innovation and regulation as mutually exclusive, California is proof that we can do both. We can innovate responsibly.

Technology must be guided and driven by ethics if it is to do more than provide new toys for the rich.

Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention.

It's reasonable to say that certain things we understand should perhaps have limits on how they're used and how certain technologies are deployed. That's very much what we should do as a society.

The products of modern science are not in themselves good or bad; it is the way they are used that determines their value.

I think we are always right to worry about damaging consequences of new technologies even as we are empowered by them. History suggests we should not panic nor be too sanguine about cool new gizmos. There's a delicate balance.

We cannot blindly embrace the benefits of technology.

It is only by the rational use of technology; to control and guide what technology is doing; that we can keep any hopes of a social life more desirable than our own: or in fact of a social life which is not appalling to imagine.