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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, AI computers are tools for us to perform tasks too difficult or expensive for us to do on our own, such as analyzing large data sets or keeping up to date on medical research. "

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

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

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

" AI works really well when you couple AI in a raisin bread model. AI is the raisins, but you wrap it in a good user interface and product design, and that's the bread. If you think about raisin bread, it's not raisin bread without the raisins. Right? Then it's just bread, but it's also not raisin bread without the bread. Then it's just raisins. "

" All these things that we've contemplated, whether it's space travel or solutions to diseases that plague us, Ebola virus, all of these things would be a lot more tractable if the machines are trying to solve these problems. "

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

" 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. "

" At least inside the city of Seattle, driving is going to be a hobby in 2035. It's not going to be a mode of commuting the same way hunting is a hobby for some people, but it's not how most of us get our food. "

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

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

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

" Cloud computing, smartphones, social media platforms, and Internet of Things devices have already transformed how we communicate, work, shop, and socialize. These technologies gather unprecedented data streams leading to formidable challenges around privacy, profiling, manipulation, and personal safety. "

" Deep learning is a subfield of machine learning, which is a vibrant research area in artificial intelligence, or AI. "

" Driverless cars are a great thing. "

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

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

" I became interested in AI in high school because I read 'Goedel, Escher, Bach,' a book by Douglas Hofstader. He showed how all their work in some ways fit together, and he talked about artificial intelligence. I thought 'Wow, this is what I want to be doing.' "

" 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. "

" I'd like to make a fundamental impact on one of the most exciting, intelligent questions of all time. Can we use software and hardware to build intelligence into a machine? Can that machine help us solve cancer? Can that machine help us solve climate change? "

" I don't think that all the coal miners - or even more realistically, say, the truck drivers whose jobs may be put out by self-driving cars and trucks - they're all going to go and become web designers and programmers. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I'm trying to use AI to make the world a better place. To help scientists. To help us communicate more effectively with machines and collaborate with them. "

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

" 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. "

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