Oren Etzioni

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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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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Israel is a wonderful place to grow up.

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

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Driverless cars are a great thing.

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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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When you think of driverless cars, there's a huge potential for these cars to save lives by preventing accidents and by reducing…

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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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I could do a whole talk on the question of is AI dangerous.' My response is that AI is not going to…

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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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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 became interested in AI in high school because I read 'Goedel, Escher, Bach,' a book by Douglas Hofstader. He showed how…

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The truth is that behind any AI program that works is a huge amount of, A, human ingenuity and, B, blood, sweat…

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Infrastructure investment in science is an investment in jobs, in health, in economic growth and environmental solutions.

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Scientists need the infrastructure for scientific search to aid their research, and they need it to offer relevancy and ways to separate…

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

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Machine learning is looking for patterns in data. If you start with racist data, you will end up with even more racist…

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All these things that we've contemplated, whether it's space travel or solutions to diseases that plague us, Ebola virus, all of these…

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The only rollercoasters I get on are startups.

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

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

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Sooner or later, the U.S. will face mounting job losses due to advances in automation, artificial intelligence, and robotics.

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