Quotes
ℹ️ Information: A collection of quotes about artificial intelligence, drawn from public sources such as BrainyQuote and AZQuotes. Quotes are reproduced for educational purposes and should be checked against the primary sources.
The Promise of AI
“We’re making this analogy that AI is the new electricity. Electricity transformed industries: agriculture, transportation, communication, manufacturing.”
— Andrew Ng, co-founder of Google Brain and Coursera
“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, former CEO of IBM
“I’d rather see artificial intelligence than no intelligence.”
— Michael Crichton, author
“We’re living in an age where new technology offers gigantic upsides - artificial intelligence has the potential to diagnose cancer, catch serial killers and reduce prison populations.”
— Hannah Fry, mathematician and author
“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.”
— Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft
“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.”
— Masayoshi Son, founder of SoftBank
“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, inventor and futurist
“Those years should be intellectually the most creative and exciting in the history of mankind.”
— J. C. R. Licklider, computer scientist, on man-computer symbiosis
Risks & Alignment
“With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon. You know all those stories where there’s the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, and he’s like, yeah, he’s sure he can control the demon? Doesn’t work out.”
— Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX
“It [AI] would take off on its own and redesign itself at an ever increasing rate. Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn’t compete and would be superseded.”
— Stephen Hawking, physicist
“By far, the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it.”
— Eliezer Yudkowsky, AI alignment researcher
“By their very nature, heuristic shortcuts will produce biases, and that is true for both humans and artificial intelligence, but the heuristics of AI are not necessarily the human ones.”
— Daniel Kahneman, Nobel laureate in economics
“Like all technologies before it, artificial intelligence will reflect the values of its creators. So inclusivity matters - from who designs it to who sits on the company boards and which ethical perspectives are included.”
— Kate Crawford, AI researcher and author
“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, founder of the World Economic Forum
“I do think we need to at least register artificial intelligence units to be able to monitor and control them. Because we want to control them and not vice versa.”
— Jens Martin Skibsted, designer and author
“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, futurist
What AI Is
“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, mathematician and computer scientist
“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, professor at Stanford University
“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, founder of Udacity
“The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.”
— Jean Baudrillard, philosopher
“The key to artificial intelligence has always been the representation.”
— Jeff Hawkins, co-founder of Numenta
“The techniques of artificial intelligence are to the mind what bureaucracy is to human social interaction.”
— Terry Winograd, professor at Stanford University
“A lot of what people are calling ‘artificial intelligence’ is really data analytics - in other words, business as usual. If the hype leaves you asking ‘What is A.I., really?,’ don’t worry, you’re not alone.”
— Om Malik, technology writer
“Forget artificial intelligence - in the brave new world of big data, it’s artificial idiocy we should be looking out for.”
— Tom Chatfield, author and commentator
AI & Education
“Education is not about thinning the herd. Education is about helping every student succeed.”
— Andrew Ng, co-founder of Google Brain and Coursera
“I want every five-year-old to have a personalised tutor.”
— Andrew Ng, co-founder of Google Brain and Coursera
“The biggest ethical challenge AI is facing is jobs. You have to reskill your workforce not just to create a wealthier society but a fairer one. A lot of call centre jobs will go away, and a radiologist’s job will be transformed.”
— Andrew Ng, co-founder of Google Brain and Coursera
“In the long term, artificial intelligence and automation are going to be taking over so much of what gives humans a feeling of purpose.”
— Matt Bellamy, musician
“Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empathy and make your mirror neurons quiver.”
— Diane Ackerman, author
“Achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2050, identifying treatments to diseases like cancer, and harnessing the power of robotics and artificial intelligence to support everyday tasks are all within our grasp.”
— Alok Sharma, former UK Cabinet minister
“With artificial intelligence, we have the opportunity to move past some of the rote memorization and really think about problem solving and analysis and deeper levels of thinking and learning.”
— Miguel Cardona, former US Secretary of Education
“A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.”
— Alan Perlis, computer scientist
The Future
“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, inventor and futurist
“There is no reason and no way that a human mind can keep up with an artificial intelligence machine by 2035.”
— Gray Scott, futurist
“I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial Intelligence.”
— Vernor Vinge, author and computer scientist
“One of the interesting applications of symbolic systems is artificial intelligence, and I spent some time thinking about how to create a brain that operates the way ours does.”
— Marissa Mayer, former CEO of Yahoo
“It’s going to be interesting to see how society deals with artificial intelligence, but it will definitely be cool.”
— Colin Angle, co-founder of iRobot
“With computer software, genomics, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, robotics, biology, we can literally program everything, having the power to create any kind of world we can imagine. The most pressing question in my mind is: What kind of world do I want to build?”
— Bryan Johnson, entrepreneur
“Today, billions of mobile devices with extraordinary power are uniting with advancements in robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, and so much more.”
— Steve Mollenkopf, former CEO of Qualcomm
“Artificial intelligence would be the ultimate version of Google. The ultimate search engine that would understand everything on the Web.”
— Larry Page, co-founder of Google