ethics of technology Quotes

Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.

I don't think the robots are taking over. I think the men who play with toys have taken over. And if we don't take the toys out of their hands, we're fools.

Technology is both a tool for helping humans and for destroying them. This is the paradox of our times which we're compelled to face.

Technology without morality is barbarous; morality without technology is impotent.

What's most interesting about trying to figure out AI is the questions that it forces you to ask about the nature of consciousness.

I do not like the way people use the more and more magnificent fruits of technology to their filthy deeds.

Technology is usually fairly neutral. It’s like a hammer, which can be used to build a house or to destroy someone’s home. The hammer doesn’t care. It is almost always up to us to determine whether the technology is good or bad.

Living in a time of the increasing struggle of the mechanization of man, photography has become another example of this paradoxical problem of how to humanize, how to overcome a machine on which we are thoroughly dependent... the camera.

One thing is certain: the riddle of mind, long a topic for philosophers, has taken on new urgency. Under pressure from the computer, the question of mind in relation to machine is becoming a central cultural preoccupation. It is becoming for us what sex was to the Victorians--threat and obsession, taboo and fascination.

We cannot idealize technology. Technology is only and always the reflection of our own imagination, and its uses must be conditioned by our own values. Technology can help cure diseases, but we can prevent a lot of diseases by old-fashioned changes in behavior.

We are too prone to make technological instruments the scapegoats for the sins of those who wield them. The products of modern science are not in themselves good or bad; it is the way they are used that determines their value.

In yesterday's post, I asked how many of you guys would have sex with a robot if it was indistinguishable from a hot human woman. About 95% of the hetero guys said they would. The other 5% expressed a strong preference for lying.

How can you be sure?" "I'm a doctor, Jenna. And a scientist." "Does that make you an authority on everything? What about a soul, Father? When you were so busy implanting all your neural chips, did you think about that? Did you snip my soul from my old body, too? Where did you put it? Show me! Where? Where in all this groundbreaking technology did you insert my soul?

All technology should be assumed guilty until proven innocent

Technology is technology. Technology doesn't have a, it is not good or bad. Technologies are tools.

I think TV remotes should have a button that allows you to kill the person on the screen.

Only science can hope to keep technology in some sort of moral order.

Why should one say that the machine does not live? It breathes, for its breath forms the atmosphere of some towns.

Anybody can use science and technology without fundamentally altering his own frame of mind which governs how they are used.

The whole of technology depends on a scientific background, and of course technology can be used for evil purposes. You can't blame science for that.

Technology isn't the villain and the people aren't often really the villain so much as they're weak.