"Artificial Intelligence (AI) will touch every profession, every classroom, every hospital, every laboratory, every person and every relationship you have.
" — Eric Schmidt (1955- ), former Google CEO, in a keynote address to University of Arizona graduates, that was booed by students, Friday, May 15, 2026.
"Artificial Intelligence (AI) is probably the most important thing humanity has ever worked on. I think of it as something more profound than electricity or fire.
" — Sundar Pichai (1972- ), Chief executive officer (CEO) of Alphabet Inc. and of its subsidiary Google. (Statement made in 2018, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland).
"The development of full Artificial Intelligence (AI) could spell the end of the human race... it would take off on its own and redesign itself at an ever-increasing rate. Humans who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn't compete and would be superseded.
" — Stephen Hawking (1942- 2018),British physicist, in an interview with the BBC, December 2, 2014.
"Any technology that facilitates attackswithout seeing the face of human beings lowers the moral threshold of conflict." —
Pope Leo XIV (1955- ), in his first encyclical 'Magnifica Humanitas' (or Magnificent Humanity), May 25, 2026.
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The development of
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and of
work-automation is
progressing rapidly with many potential applications and benefits in many areas. It is going to define the economic future.
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