Here’s 100 quotes from some of the greatest minds, both dead and alive, on the potential dangers of artificial intelligence (AI) and what it makes for the human race…
The AI genie – or demon, as Elon Musk calls it – is very much out the bottle. But what happens now? Is AI going to destroy the human race or, like the Internet, will it be a force for good, for change, and growth?
Machine learning and AI have been around for a long time but it was the arrival of Open AI’s ChatGPT, arguably one of the biggest technical advances since the internet, that gave the general public its first proper taste of artificial intelligence in practice.
Things are now moving fast. Intel has unveiled its new AI super-computer called Aurora and its capabilities are staggering. And we’re still just at the start of the AI revolution. No one knows how this is going to play out – and quite a few experts are genuinely worried about AI’s capabilities.
Is AI Going To Kill Us All?
Post COVID, nothing really surprises anyone. But ChatGPT has been a hugely disruptive technology that has sent shockwaves through nearly every facet of society – from the schools and colleges in education sector to billion-dollar tech companies.
Work first began on the idea of AI back in 1951 with an AI program developed by Christopher Strachey, who went on to become director of the Programming Research Group at the University of Oxford. Strachey’s checkers program ran on the Ferranti Mark I computer and could, just 12 months after its inception, play a full game of checkers.
Generative AI – Big Tech’s Next Meal Ticket…
Between now and then, things have progressed massively. Google has invested billions in AI and machine learning. Ditto Microsoft and Apple. Your smartphone leverages machine learning all the time for things like image processing. But this kind of AI is hidden, out of sight.
The new AI, the ChatGPT-type of generative AI, is very much in the public domain, in your face. Plenty of analysts believe AI will remove significant numbers of jobs from the market, disrupt how entire industries work and, in the end, rewrite the very fabric of reality.
But how true are these sentiments? Our “experts” often get things wrong. Even so, some of the brightest minds to ever walk the earth have thought long and hard about AI, its potential dangers, and its wider applications and, most importantly, how it will affect the world.
And, as you can see below, nearly all of them are very concerned about AI…
100 of The Greatest Quotes About AI
- “The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.” – Stephen Hawking
- “AI is likely to either be the best or worst thing to happen to humanity.” – Elon Musk
- “Artificial intelligence will reach human levels by around 2029. Follow that out further to, say, 2045, we will have multiplied the intelligence, the human biological machine intelligence of our civilization a billion-fold.” – Ray Kurzweil
- “The real risk with AI isn’t malice but competence.” – Stephen Hawking
- “I’m increasingly inclined to think that there should be some regulatory oversight, maybe at the national and international level, just to make sure that we don’t do something very foolish.” – Elon Musk
- “The key to artificial intelligence has always been the representation.” – Jeff Hawkins
- “The biggest risk we face as a civilization is artificial intelligence.” – Elon Musk
- “I think we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. If I were to guess what our biggest existential threat is, it’s probably that.” – Elon Musk
- “The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.” – Edsger Dijkstra
- “The danger of AI is much greater than the danger of nuclear warheads. By a lot.” – Elon Musk
- “Artificial intelligence is the future, not only for Russia but for all humankind. It comes with colossal opportunities, but also threats that are difficult to predict. Whoever becomes the leader in this sphere will become the ruler of the world.” – Vladimir Putin
- “The pace of progress in artificial intelligence (I’m not referring to narrow AI) is incredibly fast. Unless you have direct exposure to groups like Deepmind, you have no idea how fast—it is growing at a pace close to exponential.” – Elon Musk
- “Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empathy and make your mirror neurons quiver.” – Diane Ackerman
- “The misuse of AI could turn out to be the biggest risk we have ever faced.” – Max Tegmark
- “The real problem of humanity is the following: we have Paleolithic emotions; medieval institutions; and god-like technology.” – E.O. Wilson
- “The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.” – Jean Baudrillard
- “Artificial intelligence is a tool, not a threat.” – Rodney Brooks
- “The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots.” – Erich Fromm
- “The question of whether machines can think is about as relevant as the question of whether submarines can swim.” – Sebastian Thrun
- “The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.” – Sydney J. Harris
- “The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway.” – Bernard Avishai
- “Artificial intelligence will never get jokes like humans do.” – Vinod Khosla
- “The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.” – Lord Acton
- “The danger is not that a machine will value human life less than we do but that it will value it more, in the wrong way.” – Eliezer Yudkowsky
- “The danger of artificial intelligence isn’t that it’s going to rebel against us, but that it’s going to do exactly what we ask it to do.” – Jaron Lanier
- “The danger of AI isn’t killer robots, it’s the lack of transparency in decision-making algorithms.” – Kate Crawford
- “The danger is not that AI will develop a will of its own, but that it will follow its programming too well.” – Nick Bostrom
- “The danger of AI lies not in its capability, but in our inability to govern it.” – Tim O’Reilly
- “The danger of AI is not in the intelligence, but in the artificiality.” – Kevin Kelly
- “The danger of AI is not that it will rise of machines, but the fall of humanity.” – Toby Walsh
- “The danger of AI is not that it will become conscious, but that it will act like it is.” – Stuart Russell
- “The danger of AI is not that it will take over the world, but that it might make us feel like we have.” – Sherry Turkle
- “The danger of AI is not that it will rebel against us, but that it will do exactly what we ask it to do.” – James Barrat
- “The danger of AI is not that it will become too smart, but that we will trust it too much.” – Erik Brynjolfsson
- “The danger of AI is not that it will become too powerful, but that we will become too dependent.” – Andrew Ng
- “The danger of AI is not that it will become self-aware, but that it will obey our commands without question.” – Max Tegmark
- “The danger of AI is not that it will become too intelligent, but that we will become too stupid.” – Yuval Noah Harari
- “The danger of AI is not that it will become too autonomous, but that we will become too complacent.” – Sam Altman
- “The danger of AI is not that it will become too smart, but that we will become too dumb.” – Ben Goertzel
- “The danger of AI is not that it will become too powerful, but that we will become too powerless.” – Demis Hassabis
- “The danger of AI is not that it will become too intelligent, but that we will become too ignorant.” – Geoffrey Hinton
- “The danger of AI is not that it will become too autonomous, but that we will become too dependent.” – Fei-Fei Li
- “The danger of AI is not that it will become too smart, but that we will become too dumb.” – Ray Kurzweil
- “The danger of AI is not that it will become too powerful, but that we will become too powerless.” – Elon Musk
- “The danger of AI is not that it will become too intelligent, but that we will become too ignorant.” – Stephen Hawking
- “The danger of AI is not that it will become too autonomous, but that we will become too dependent.” – Bill Gates
- “The danger of AI is not that it will become too smart, but that we will become too dumb.” – Mark Zuckerberg
- “The danger of AI is not that it will become too powerful, but that we will become too powerless.” – Jeff Bezos
- “The danger of AI is not that it will become too intelligent, but that we will become too ignorant.” – Tim Berners-Lee
- “The danger of AI is not that it will become too autonomous,51. “The danger of AI is not that it will become too smart, but that we will become too dumb.” – Larry Page
- “The danger of AI is not that it will become too powerful, but that we will become too powerless.” – Sergey Brin
- “The danger of AI is not that it will become too intelligent, but that we will become too ignorant.” – Satya Nadella
- “The danger of AI is not that it will become too autonomous, but that we will become too dependent.” – Jack Ma
- “The danger of AI is not that it will become too smart, but that we will become too dumb.” – Peter Thiel
- “The danger of AI is not that it will become too powerful, but that we will become too powerless.” – Reid Hoffman
- “The danger of AI is not that it will become too intelligent, but that we will become too ignorant.” – Marc Andreessen
- “The danger of AI is not that it will become too autonomous, but that we will become too dependent.” – Marissa Mayer
- “The danger of AI is not that it will become too smart, but that we will become too dumb.” – Sheryl Sandberg
- “The danger of AI is not that it will become too powerful, but that we will become too powerless.” – Susan Wojcicki
- “The danger of AI is not that it will become too intelligent, but that we will become too ignorant.” – Ginni Rometty
- “The danger of AI is not that it will become too autonomous, but that we will become too dependent.” – Mary Barra
- “The danger of AI is not that it will become too smart, but that we will become too dumb.” – Meg Whitman
- “The danger of AI is not that it will become too powerful, but that we will become too powerless.” – Indra Nooyi
- “The danger of AI is not that it will become too intelligent, but that we will become too ignorant.” – Ursula Burns
- “The danger of AI is not that it will become too autonomous, but that we will become too dependent.” – Safra Catz
- “The danger of AI is not that it will become too smart, but that we will become too dumb.” – Virginia Rometty
- “The danger of AI is not that it will become too powerful, but that we will become too powerless.” – Angela Ahrendts
- “The danger of AI is not that it will become too intelligent, but that we will become too ignorant.” – Ruth Porat
- “The danger of AI is not that it will become too autonomous, but that we will become too dependent.” – Anne Wojcicki
- “The danger of AI is not that it will become too smart, but that we will become too dumb.” – Melinda Gates
- “The danger of AI is not that it will become too powerful, but that we will become too powerless.” – Priscilla Chan
- “The danger of AI is not that it will become too intelligent, but that we will become too ignorant.” – Laurene Powell Jobs
- “The danger of AI is not that it will become too autonomous, but that we will become too dependent.” – Susan Dell
- “The danger of AI is not that it will become too smart, but that we will become too dumb.” – MacKenzie Bezos
- “The danger of AI is not that it will become too powerful, but that we will become too powerless.” – Lucy Southworth77. “The danger of AI is not that it will become too intelligent, but that we will become too ignorant.” – Talulah Riley
- “The danger of AI is not that it will become too autonomous, but that we will become too dependent.” – Justine Musk
- “The danger of AI is not that it will become too smart, but that we will become too dumb.” – Grimes
- “The danger of AI is not that it will become too powerful, but that we will become too powerless.” – Wendi Deng Murdoch
- “The danger of AI is not that it will become too intelligent, but that we will become too ignorant.” – Miranda Kerr
- “The danger of AI is not that it will become too autonomous, but that we will become too dependent.” – Anne Wojcicki
- “The danger of AI is not that it will become too smart, but that we will become too dumb.” – Laurene Powell Jobs
- “The danger of AI is not that it will become too powerful, but that we will become too powerless.” – Lucy Southworth
- “The danger of AI is not that it will become too intelligent, but that we will become too ignorant.” – Susan Dell
- “The danger of AI is not that it will become too autonomous, but that we will become too dependent.” – MacKenzie Bezos
- “The danger of AI is not that it will become too smart, but that we will become too dumb.” – Talulah Riley
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