Oren Etzioni

“Some people have proposed universal basic income, UBI, basically making sure that everybody gets a certain amount of money to live off of. I think that's a wonderful idea. The problem is, we...”

“Machine learning is looking for patterns in data. If you start with racist data, you will end up with even more racist models. This is a real problem.”

“To take intellectual risks is to think about something that can't be done, that doesn't make any sense, and go for it responsibly.”

“One of my favorite sayings is, 'Much have I learned from my teachers, but even more from my friends and even more from my students.'”

“A lot of people are scared that machines will take over the world, machines will turn evil: the Hollywood 'Terminator' scenario.”

“I'm not so worried about super-intelligence and 'Terminator' scenarios. Frankly I think those are quite farfetched.”

“Everybody should do at least one startup sometime in life. It's such an amazing ride.”

“The only rollercoasters I get on are startups.”

“Netbot was the first comparison shopping company. We realized comparison shopping can be quite tedious if you are driving from one furniture store to another. On the Internet, you can automa...”

“An AI utopia is a place where people have income guaranteed because their machines are working for them. Instead, they focus on activities that they want to do, that are personally meaningfu...”

“Scientists need the infrastructure for scientific search to aid their research, and they need it to offer relevancy and ways to separate the wheat from the chaff - the useful from the noise...”

“Machines and people are both necessary for Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia, Google, and neither is sufficient on its own.”

“Israel is a wonderful place to grow up.”