Mark Walport Quotes


A computer, by definition, cannot be held accountable for anything because there is no mechanism to hold it to account, short of turning off the electricity supply or destroying the hardware. Only humans can be accountable.


Citations

Walport, Mark. Artificial Intelligence: An Overview for Policy-Makers. Government Office for Science, 2016, p. 12.

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Mark Walport
Mark Walport
  • Born: January 25, 1953
  • Nationality: British
  • Profession: Scientist

Sir Mark Jeremy Walport FRS FRCP FRCPath FMedSci FRSE is an English medical scientist and was the Government Chief Scientific Adviser in the United Kingdom from 2013 to 2017 and Chief Executive of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) from 2017 to 2020.