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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 hard to…

— Oren Etzioni

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

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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 a good…

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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 congestion on…

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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 activities that…

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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 exterminate us.…

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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 to society…

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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 from my…

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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 all their…

— Oren Etzioni