Quotes About Ethics

Technology must be guided and driven by ethics if it is to do more than provide new toys for the rich.

The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free

Society will decide after the technology is created what we will and won't accept.

During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

It is not enough to wire the world if you short-circuit the soul. Technology without heart is not enough.

Can you avoid knowledge? You cannot! Can you avoid technology? You cannot! Things are going to go ahead in spite of ethics, in spite of your personal beliefs, in spite of everything.

Technology without hatred can be a blessing. Technology with hatred is always a disaster.

All attempts to adapt our ethical code to our situation in the technological age have failed.

Technology is technology. Technology doesn't have a, it is not good or bad. Technologies are tools.

Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression.

The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else.

What intrigued me most was not the technology as such but the questions about the human goods, the fundamental human values and virtues that are raised by debates over biotechnology.

If a technology is beneficial, everyone should have it. If it is not, no one should have it.

In any conflict between humanity and technology, humanity will win.

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.

The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.

Thanks to technology, what almost anybody can do has been multiplied a thousandfold, and our moral understanding about what we ought to do hasn't kept pace.

Our technology has already outstripped our ability to control it.

I'm not much interested in extrapolating science and technology; I merely use extrapolation as a means of putting people into new quandaries which produce colorful pressures and conflicts.

There is a demon in technology. It was put there by man and man will have to exorcise it before technological civilization can achieve the eighteenth-century ideal of humane civilized life.

One could imagine such technology outsmarting financial markets, out-inventing human researchers, out-manipulating human leaders, and developing weapons we cannot even understand.

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

Reliable scientific knowledge is value free and has no moral or ethical value. Science tells us how the world is. ... Dangers and ethical issue arise only when science is applied as technology.

Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don't have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.