Edward R. Murrow Quotes

The artificial is always innocent.

I mean, technology is amoral. It has no morality.

An animal takes freely anything that it wishes: it commits no sin and is not held responsible for its action because it knows no better. But as soon as the idea of 'mine' and 'thine' has been imprinted upon our consciousness, then also the responsibility comes.

Robots are not people. They are mechanically more perfect than we are, they have an astounding intellectual capacity, but they have no soul.

To say that AI will start doing what it wants for its own purposes is like saying a calculator will start making its own calculations.

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

To extinguish the free will is to strike the conscience with death, for both have but one and the same life.

Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.

There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience.

Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong.

If the Soviet Government orders me to act against my conscience, I do not obey …. Conscience is above the law. No law which is against the conscience can bind.

Every technology that can improve the human condition could harm the human condition. Someone evil could program a robot to hurt people.

Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There's more opposable thumb in the digital world than I care for; it's awfully close to human.

I believe this artificial intelligence is going to be our partner. If we misuse it, it will be a risk. If we use it right, it can be our partner.

Guilt is what separates humans from animals.

A guilty conscience means at least you have one.

Conscience warns us not to sink our cleats too deeply in mortal turf, which is so dangerously artificial.

There's no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there's no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics.

They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.

You will be judged in years to come by how you responded to genocide on your watch.

Someone once asked, 'What is the difference between me and Saddam Hussein?' The answer is, 'I have a conscience and he doesn't.'

The intuition of free will gives us the truth.

If you didn't have any conscious beings in the world, there really wouldn't be morality but with consciousness that you have it.

If I do not respond to some situation, my conscience kills me. I believe in permissible violence, not necessarily non-violence.

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.