Oren Etzioni

“Machines and people are both necessary for Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia, Google, and neither is sufficient on its own.”

“Even seemingly innocuous housecleaning robots create maps of your home. That is information you want to make sure you control.”

“If you step back a little and say we want to do A.I., then you will realize that A.I. needs knowledge, reasoning, and explanation.”

“I'm not a big fan of self-driving cars where there's no steering wheel or brake pedal. Knowing what I know about computer vision and AI, I'd be pretty uncomfortable with that. But I am a fan of a combined system - one that can brake for you if you fall asleep at the wheel, for example.”

“When you think of driverless cars, there's a huge potential for these cars to save lives by preventing accidents and by reducing congestion on highways.”

“AI is neither good nor evil. It's a tool. It's a technology for us to use.”

“Because of their exceptional ability to automatically elicit, record, and analyze information, A.I. systems are in a prime position to acquire confidential information.”

“Scientists need the infrastructure for scientific search to aid their research, and they need it to offer relevancy and ways to separate the wheat from the chaff - the useful from the noise - via AI-enabled algorithms. With AI, such an infrastructure would be able to identify the exact study a scientist needs from the tens of thousands on a topic.”

“An AI utopia is a place where people have income guaranteed because their machines are working for them. Instead, they focus on activities that they want to do, that are personally meaningful like art or, where human creativity still shines, in science.”

“I could do a whole talk on the question of is AI dangerous.' My response is that AI is not going to exterminate us. It's a tool that's going to empower us.”