Rana el Kaliouby Quotes

Any powerful technology can be abused.

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

I'm as guilty as anyone, because I helped to herald the digital era with Jurassic Park. But the danger is that it can be abused to the point where nothing is eye-popping any more.

The embrace of a new technology by ordinary people leads inevitably to its embrace by people of malign intent.

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

Technology is always a two-edged sword. It will bring in many benefits, but also many disasters.

I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.

I love technology, and I love science. It's just always all in the way you use it. So there's no - you can't really blame anything on the technology. It's just the way people use it, and it always has been.

Technology is a wonderful thing, but I think it's violently misused.

Technology is, of course, a double edged sword. Fire can cook our food but also burn us.

If we misuse the gift of sexuality, we're going to suffer the consequences, and I firmly believe we are suffering the consequences.

By far, the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it.

[A] privilege takes flight when abused.

Do you know anything on earth which has not a dangerous side if it is mishandled and exaggerated?

Complexity and innovation are not always good things.

Any time we are misused or used for a purpose other than what God intended us for, it's damaging.

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.

Technology always has unforeseen consequences, and it is not always clear, at the beginning, who or what will win, and who or what will lose.

The invention of the ship was also the invention of the shipwreck.

The military do so love shiny new technology, there's always so many ways to abuse it.

Danger is a side effect of what I do, not the reason behind it.

What Steve Jobs and I did-and at the same time Bill Gates and Paul Allen did-we had no savings accounts, no friends that could loan us money. But we had ideas, and I wanted all my life to be a part of a revolution.

Science has toiled too long forging weapons for fools to use. It is time she held her hand.

Modern science is necessarily a double-edged tool, a tool that cuts both ways. ... There is no doubt that a Zeppelin is a wonderful thing; but that did not prevent it from becoming a horrible thing.