51 Quotes About Artificial Intelligence

“I often tell my students not to be misled by the name ‘artificial intelligence’ – there is nothing artificial about it. AI is made by humans, intended to behave by humans, and, ultimately, to impact humans’ lives and human society.”- Fei-Fei Li 

“The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race….It would take off on its own, and re-design itself at an ever increasing rate. Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn’t compete, and would be superseded.” – Stephen Hawking 

“What all of us have to do is to make sure we are using AI in a way that is for the benefit of humanity, not to the detriment of humanity.” – Tim Cook 

“A lot of times, the failings are not in AI. They’re human failings, and we’re not willing to address the fact that there isn’t a lot of diversity in the teams building the systems in the first place. And somewhat innocently, they aren’t as thoughtful about balancing training sets to get the thing to work correctly. But then teams let that occur again, and again. And you realize, if you’re not thinking about the human problem, then AI isn’t going to solve it for you.” – Vivienne Ming

“AI is a complex field and I am the first to say that we computer scientists have not progressed as far as many people believe. For instance, we currently have no credible research path to any kind of conscious AI algorithm and there are no robots that are truly autonomous or able to make their own decisions — so don’t worry about walking terminators.”- Richard Socher

“Is artificial intelligence less than our intelligence?” – Spike Jonze

“By far, the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it.” – Eliezer Yudkowsky

“Software is eating the world, but AI is going to eat software.”- Jensen Huang

“The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.” – Jean Baudrillard

“I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I’m rooting for the machines.” – Claude Shannon

“I imagine a world in which AI is going to make us work more productively, live longer, and have cleaner energy.” – Fei-Fei Li

“Artificial intelligence would be the ultimate version of Google. The ultimate search engine that would understand everything on the web. It would understand exactly what you wanted, and it would give you the right thing. We’re nowhere near doing that now. However, we can get incrementally closer to that, and that is basically what we work on.” – Larry Page

“Forget artificial intelligence – in the brave new world of big data, it’s artificial idiocy we should be looking out for.” -Tom Chatfield

“Before we work on artificial intelligence why don’t we do something about natural stupidity?” – Steve Polyak

“The pace of progress in artificial intelligence (I’m not referring to narrow AI) is incredibly fast. Unless you have direct exposure to groups like Deepmind, you have no idea how fast – it is growing at a pace close to exponential. The risk of something seriously dangerous happening is in the five-year timeframe. 10 years at most.” – Elon Musk

“AI is neither good nor evil. It’s a tool. It’s a technology for us to use.” – Oren Etzioni

“The coming era of Artificial Intelligence will not be the era of war, but be the era of deep compassion, non-violence, and love.” – Amit Ray

“The upheavals [of artificial intelligence] can escalate quickly and become scarier and even cataclysmic. Imagine how a medical robot, originally programmed to rid cancer, could conclude that the best way to obliterate cancer is to exterminate humans who are genetically prone to the disease.” – Nick Bilton

“I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.” – Alan Turing

“I don’t want to really scare you, but it was alarming how many people I talked to who are highly placed people in AI who have retreats that are sort of ‘bug out’ houses, to which they could flee if it all hits the fan.” – James Barrat

“Some people call this artificial intelligence, but the reality is this technology will enhance us. So instead of artificial intelligence, I think we’ll augment our intelligence.” – Ginni Rometty

“Machine intelligence is the last invention that humanity will ever need to make.” – Nick Bostrom

“I’m increasingly inclined to think that there should be some regulatory oversight, maybe at the national and international level, just to make sure that we don’t do something very foolish. I mean with artificial intelligence we’re summoning the demon.” – Elon Musk

“Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.” – Stephen Hawking

“The real question is, when will we draft an artificial intelligence bill of rights? What will that consist of? And who will get to decide that?” – Gray Scott

“We must address, individually and collectively, moral and ethical issues raised by cutting-edge research in artificial intelligence and biotechnology, which will enable significant life extension, designer babies, and memory extraction.” – Klaus Schwab

“To say that AI will start doing what it wants for its own purposes is like saying a calculator will start making its own calculations.” – Oren Etzioni

“If people trust artificial intelligence (AI) to drive a car, people will most likely trust AI to do your job.” – Dave Waters

“If people trust artificial intelligence (AI) to drive a car, people will most likely trust AI to do your job.” – Dave Waters

“AI is everywhere. It’s not that big, scary thing in the future. AI is here with us.” – Fei-Fei Li

“You have to talk about ‘The Terminator’ if you’re talking about artificial intelligence. I actually think that that’s way off. I don’t think that an artificially intelligent system that has superhuman intelligence will be violent. I do think that it will disrupt our culture.” – Gray Scott

“If the government regulates against use of drones or stem cells or artificial intelligence, all that means is that the work and the research leave the borders of that country and go someplace else.” – Peter Diamandis

“The key to artificial intelligence has always been the representation.” – Jeff Hawkins

“It’s going to be interesting to see how society deals with artificial intelligence, but it will definitely be cool.” – Colin Angle

“For me it’s very important to think about AI’s impact in the world, and one of the most important missions is to democratize this technology.” – Fei-Fei Li

“Why give a robot an order to obey orders – why aren’t the original orders enough? Why command a robot not to do harm – wouldn’t it be easier never to command it to do harm in the first place?” – Steven Pinker

“AI doesn’t have to be evil to destroy humanity – if AI has a goal and humanity just happens to come in the way, it will destroy humanity as a matter of course without even thinking about it, no hard feelings.” – Elon Musk

“The real problem is not the existential threat of AI. Instead, it is in the development of ethical AI systems.” – Rana el Kaliouby

“Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empathy and make your mirror neurons quiver.” – Diane Ackerman

“As more and more artificial intelligence is entering into the world, more and more emotional intelligence must enter into leadership.” – Amit Ray

“Someone on TV has only to say, ‘Alexa,’ and she lights up. She’s always ready for action, the perfect woman, never says, ‘Not tonight, dear.’” – Sybil Sage

“There’s no one thing that defines AI. It’s more like a tapestry of modern intelligent technologies knit together in a strategic fashion that can then uplift and create a knowledge base that is automated – where you can extrapolate findings from there.” – John Frémont

“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.” – Alan Kay

“The playing field is poised to become a lot more competitive, and businesses that don’t deploy AI and data to help them innovate in everything they do will be at a disadvantage.” – Paul Daugherty

“The gradual platformization of AI is very interesting to me. The efforts by Google, Amazon, Salesforce – they’re bringing AI down to a level of not needing to be an expert to use it. … I think the day that any good software engineer can program AI will be the day it really proliferates.” – Kai-Fu Lee

“Humans need and want more time to interact with each other. I think AI coming about and replacing routine jobs is pushing us to do what we should be doing anyway: the creation of more humanistic service jobs.”  – Kai-Fu Lee

“Artificial intelligence will reach human levels by around 2029. Follow that out further to, say, 2045, we will have multiplied the intelligence, the human biological machine intelligence of our civilization a billion-fold.” – Ray Kurzweil

“Nobody phrases it this way, but I think that artificial intelligence is almost a humanities discipline. It’s really an attempt to understand human intelligence and human cognition.” – Sebastian Thrun

“As important as it is to educate the new sets of generations coming in, I also think it’s important to educate the existing workforce, so they can understand how to have AI serve them and their roles.” – Sarah Aerni

“A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.” – Alan Perlis

“There is no reason and no way that a human mind can keep up with an artificial intelligence machine by 2035.” -Gray Scott