Geoffrey Hinton Quotes

Any new technology, if it's used by evil people, bad things can happen. But that's more a question of the politics of the technology.

Geoffrey Hinton

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• The success of each of us benefits us all, and the success of us all benefits each of us individually.

  

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• I want to reveal in a simple way the usual - and unusual - life of the city; the corporation workman, the busmen, policemen, the civil servants, the theatres, Moore Street and also, what occupies so large a place in Dublin's life, the literary and artistic.

  

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• Democratic accountability means that governments must be popularly accepted, with citizens empowered to replace corrupt or incompetent rulers.

  

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• Any new technology, if it's used by evil people, bad things can happen. But that's more a question of the politics of the technology.

  

  Geoffrey Hinton
  • People
  • Bad
  • Question