Thoughts on artificial intelligence

American mathematician

AI doesn’t have to be evil to destroy humanity —if AI has a goal and humanity just happens to come in the way, it will destroy humanity as a matter, of course, without even thinking about it, no hard feelings.

—Elon Musk

American entrepreneur

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

—Eliezer Yudkowsky

American AI theorist

By their very nature, heuristic shortcuts will produce biases, and that is true for both humans and artificial intelligence, but the heuristics of AI are not necessarily the human ones.

—Daniel Kahneman

Israeli psychologist

What all of us have to do is to make sure we are using AI in a way that is for the benefit of humanity, not to the detriment of humanity.

—Tim Cook

CEO, Apple

People are spending way too much time thinking about climate change, way too little thinking about AI.

—Peter Thiel

German-American entrepreneur

It seems probable that once the machine thinking method had started, it would not take long to outstrip our feeble powers… They would be able to converse with each other to sharpen their wits. At some stage, therefore, we should have to expect the machines to take control.

—Alan Turing

English mathematician

The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.

—Edsger Dijkstra

Dutch computer scientist

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.

—Alan Perlis

American computer scientist

AI will probably most likely lead to the end of the world, but in the meantime, there’ll be great companies.

—Sam Altman

American entrepreneur