Oren Etzioni

The only rollercoasters I get on are startups.

— Oren Etzioni

Driverless cars are a great thing.

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The biggest reason we want autonomous cars is to prevent accidents.

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AI is a tool. The choice about how it gets deployed is ours.

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Israel is a wonderful place to grow up.

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Science is going to be revolutionized by AI assistants.

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My dream is to achieve AI for the common good.

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If you believe everything you read, you are probably quite worried about the prospect of a superintelligent, killer AI.

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When there are hiring decisions and promotion decisions to be made, people are hungry for data.

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I think that there are so many problems that we have as a society that AI can help us address.

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Our highways and our roads are underutilized because of the allowances we have to make for human drivers.

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

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

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A universal basic income doesn't give people dignity or protect them from boredom and vice.

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

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It's hard for me to speculate about what motivates somebody like Stephen Hawking or Elon Musk to talk so extensively about AI.…

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Just as our roads and bridges are overdue for investment, so is the infrastructure for scientific research; that is, the body of…

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I don't think that all the coal miners - or even more realistically, say, the truck drivers whose jobs may be put…

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The mechanical loom and the calculator have shown us that technology is both disruptive and filled with opportunities. But it would be…

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Ultimately, to me, the computer is just a big pencil. What can we sketch using this pencil that makes a positive difference…

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An AI utopia is a place where people have income guaranteed because their machines are working for them. Instead, they focus on…

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

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Understanding of natural language is what sometimes is called 'AI complete,' meaning if you can really do that, you can probably solve…

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The popular dystopian vision of AI is wrong for one simple reason: it equates intelligence with autonomy. That is, it assumes a…

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Cloud computing, smartphones, social media platforms, and Internet of Things devices have already transformed how we communicate, work, shop, and socialize. These…

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I think it's important for us to have a rule that if a system is really an AI bot, it ought to…

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A calculator is a tool for humans to do math more quickly and accurately than they could ever do by hand; similarly,…

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Instead of expecting truck drivers and warehouse workers to rapidly retrain so they can compete with tireless, increasingly capable machines, let's play…

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People thrive on genuine connections - not with machines, but with each other. You don't want a robot taking care of your…

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We don't want A.I. to engage in cyberbullying, stock manipulation, or terrorist threats; we don't want the F.B.I. to release A.I. systems…

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AI works really well when you couple AI in a raisin bread model. AI is the raisins, but you wrap it in…

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Taking new technology and incorporating into how people work and live is not easy.

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To say that AI will start doing what it wants for its own purposes is like saying a calculator will start making…

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One of my favorite sayings is, 'Much have I learned from my teachers, but even more from my friends and even more…

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I love sophisticated algorithms that help consumers in a tangible way.

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It's much more likely that an asteroid will strike the Earth and annihilate life as we know it than AI will turn…

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

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Everybody should do at least one startup sometime in life. It's such an amazing ride.

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A.I. should not be weaponized, and any A.I. must have an impregnable 'off switch.'

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I like to say I've been working on big data for so long, it used to be small data when I started…

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