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Quotes About Autonomous

I'm considered a difficult girl. I have a reputation for needing to be told a good reason to do something before I will do it.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
There are many valid concerns about AI, from its impact on jobs to its uses in autonomous weapons systems and even to the potential risk of superintelligence.
~ Oren Etzioni
I'm not a very good yes man, and I'm not very easily controlled.
~ Brock Lesnar
The first autonomous cars date back to the late 20th century. But recent increases in sophistication and reductions in cost - reflected, for example, in cheap LIDAR systems, which can 'see' a street in 3D in a way similar to that of the human eye - are now bringing autonomous cars closer to the market.
~ Carlo Ratti
You must understand that when you approach the unconscious you are dealing with one the most powerful and autonomous forces in human experience.
~ Robert A. Johnson
Nations matter morally, when they do, as things desires by autonomous agents whose autonomous desires we ought to acknowledge and take account of, even if we cannot always accede to them. States, on the other hand, matter morally intrinsically. They matter not because people care about them, but because they regulate our lives through forces of coercion that will always require moral justification.
~ Kwame Anthony Appiah
In other words, switching to autonomous vehicles is likely to save the lives of one million people every year. It would therefore be madness to block automation in fields such as transport and healthcare just in order to protect human jobs. After all, what we ultimately ought to protect is humans—not jobs. Displaced drivers and doctors will just have to find something else to do.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
The similarities are many: both mass movements and armies are collective bodies; both strip the individual of his separateness and distinctness; both demand self-sacrifice, unquestioning obedience and singlehearted allegiance; both make extensive use of make-belief to promote daring and united action (see Section 47); and both can serve as a refuge for the frustrated who cannot endure an autonomous existence.
~ Eric Hoffer
I'm not a Republican, and I'm not a Democrat.
~ Ronnie Dunn
Idle to imagine falling in love as a correspondence of mind, of thoughts; it is the simultaneous firing of two spirits engaged in the autonomous act of growing up.
~ Lawrence Durrell
The organism cannot be regarded as simply the passive object of autonomous internal and external forces; it is also the subject of its own evolution.
~ Richard Levins
Whenever possible, I operate outside the system.
~ Andres Serrano
The one thing about program television that's absolutely incompatible with any concept of art is that all decisions have to be made by program directors, whereas art is autonomous. It may be dependent, but it knows no superiors.
~ Alexander Kluge
Mavericks are nonconformists. They pride themselves on going it alone.
~ Jacqueline Leo
I'm an independent type. No one tells me what to do.
~ Greta Van Susteren
In his work habits, Nicholas was solitary. Unlike most monarchs and chiefs of state—unlike even his own wife—he had no private secretary. He preferred to do things for himself. On his desk he kept a large calendar of his daily appointments, scrupulously entered in his own hand. When official papers arrived, he opened them, read them, signed them and put them in envelopes himself.
~ Robert K. Massie
Conservatism is not a matter of defending global capitalism at all costs, or securing the privileges of the few against the many. It is a matter of defending civil society, maintaining autonomous institutions, and defending the citizen against the abuse of power
~ Roger Scruton
The truck was its own driver, and that driver was a high-functioning paranoid.
~ Annalee Newitz
Families with nothing would sometimes sell their toddlers to indenture schools, where managers trained them to be submissive just like they were programming a bot. At least bots could earn their way out of ownership after a while, be upgraded, and go fully autonomous. Humans might earn their way out, but there was no autonomy key that could undo a childhood like that.
~ Annalee Newitz
I've read about bots who were built autonomous. But I didn't realize you were …" "Out in the world, being autonomous?" Med laughed. "Yeah." Jack laughed with her. "Robotics isn't really my area. I'm more on the genomics end of things." "Me too," the bot replied.
~ Annalee Newitz
Neoliberalism must be grasped as an individualist social philosophy whose main locus of attention is the self, and whose main anthropological assumption, as Aschoff argues, is that 'we are all independent, autonomous actors meeting in the marketplace, making our destinies and in the process making society. The consequence of neoliberalism was a widespread collapse of the social in favour of the psychological.
~ Eva Illouz
We are financially strong. We are self-sustaining. We don't have an umbilical cord that we are concerned about.
~ Ed Woodward
Texans are by nature independent people.
~ Joe Barton
compelling the Spartans to grant them their liberty as an autonomous city-state?
~ Roderick Beaton