Technology Risk Quotes

With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon. In all those stories where there is the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, … he’s sure he can control the demon. But it doesn’t work out.

With artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon.

A.I. poses a potential threat more dangerous than nuclear weapons.

People who worry about genetically modified food, a technology which has been tested and proven safe, talk to each other on cell phones which have not been tested and proven safe.

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

With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon. You know all those stories where there's the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, and he's like, yeah, he's sure he can control the demon? Doesn't work out.

We're in a new world. We're in a world in which the possibility of terrorism, married up with technology, could make us very, very sorry that we didn't act.

It's hard to know what's going to be replaced by technology tomorrow. It feels like we're all at risk. I feel only safe as an emeritus professor!

When my mother gets a prompt 'Do you want to download this?' she's going to say yes. It's disingenuous for Microsoft to give you all of these tools with which to hang yourself, and when you do, then say it's your fault.

I do agree that when it comes to cyber warfare, we have more to lose than any other nation on earth.

This is technology that will not go away. And to risk it moving into the hands of a terrorist group like al Qaeda or to other focused enemies of the United States, would have tragic consequences.

Although personally, I think cyberspace means the end of our species.

Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.

The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual.

In any technology, one has to be very careful to ensure that it is good and has enough safeguards.

There is a lot of risk in the tech sector.

Whether it's watching a $4,000 laptop fall off the conveyor belt at airport security, contending with a software conflict that corrupted your file management system, or begging your family to stop opening those virus-carrying 'greeting cards' attached to emails, all computer owners are highly leveraged and highly vulnerable technology investors.

As our use of technologies grows exponentially, so do our country's vulnerabilities. Our national security depends on the stability and reliability of our communications infrastructure. The cyber threat to IT and national security systems has never been greater.

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

With every technology, there will be misuses of it.

...what threatens us today in the world of computers and other invasions of privacy is not a national ID card but a number of other things.

I think there's a certain paranoia about science because there is a certain risk related to science which people are very wary about, and therefore, there is an inherent risk aversion to science and technology or, at least, science and technology of unknown.

The minimum we should hope for with any display technology is that it should do no harm.

We need to be super careful with AI. Potentially more dangerous than nukes.

Although I think it is wonderful to have the whole world of music available in something that small and to have it conveyed with such fidelity almost straight into the brain, I think the technology is also a danger.