Quotes About Ethics

And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living.

Just because scientists have the knowledge to do it, the technology to do it, and some may even have a financial motive or other incentive to do it, does not make it right.

Technology means you can now do amazing things easily; but you couldn't easily do them legally.

I do not think that there is a reputable scientist on this planet who would advocate using this technology to generate a human child as was just announced.

It has become appallingly clear that our technology has surpassed our humanity. I hope that someday, our humanity might yet surpass our technology.

Everybody thinks that when new technologies come along that they're transparent and you can just do your job well on it. But technologies always import a whole new set of values with them.

Some people think technology has the answers.

In a way, technologies have negated the transcendental God in order to invent the machine-God. However, these two gods raise similar questions.

There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.

Those who live by electronics die by electronics. Sic semper tyrannis.

So one begins to wonder what is going to happen to the human race. Technology keeps on advancing with greater and greater power, either for good or for destruction.

Technology without morality is barbarous; morality without technology is impotent.

It's not completely inconceivable that someday you'll be able to download your own memories.

We are at the dawn of a technological arms race, an arms race between people who are using technology for good and those who are using it for ill.

I mean, technology is amoral. It has no morality.

Technology is not neutral.

We need to make sure that we are using technology, and technology is not using us.

Be wary of technology; it is often merely an improved means to an unimproved end.

Only science can hope to keep technology in some sort of moral order.

If those of us in positions of responsibility fail to do everything in our power to protect the right of privacy, we risk something far more valuable than money. We risk our way of life.

It's possible, without taking sides or playing the statesman game, to reduce destruction simply by reducing the development of technology of destruction.

I'm hoping the reader can see that artificial intelligence is better understood as a belief system instead of a technology.

The best and most evolved technologies are those that do not destroy the very base on which we live

New technologies are a good thing but we must consider how they will impact on us so that, when they become achievable, they aren't allowed to run amok.