71 Quotes by Oren Etzioni

I'm not so worried about super-intelligence and 'Terminator' scenarios. Frankly I think those are quite farfetched.

Automation has emerged as a bigger threat to American jobs than globalization or immigration combined.

Just as our roads and bridges are overdue for investment, so is the infrastructure for scientific research; that is, the body of scientific thought and the tools for searching through it.

A lot of people are scared that machines will take over the world, machines will turn evil: the Hollywood 'Terminator' scenario.

Instead of expecting truck drivers and warehouse workers to rapidly retrain so they can compete with tireless, increasingly capable machines, let's play to their human strengths and create opportunities for workers as companions and caregivers for our elders, our children, and our special-needs population.

It's paradoxical that things that are hard for people are easy for the computer, and things that are hard for the computer, any child can understand.

Some people have proposed universal basic income, UBI, basically making sure that everybody gets a certain amount of money to live off of. I think that's a wonderful idea. The problem is, we haven't been able to guarantee universal healthcare in this country.

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.

Ultimately, to me, the computer is just a big pencil. What can we sketch using this pencil that makes a positive difference to society and advances the state of the art, hopefully in an outsized way?