Thoughts on AI
• “The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.”
– Albert Einstein (attributed).
• “AI won’t replace humans, but those who use AI will replace those who don’t.”
– Garry Kasparov, 2017.
• “Success in creating effective AI could be the biggest event in the history of our civilization. Or the worst.”
– Google.
• “Art has long been seen as a uniquely human endeavor, making AI’s advance into this realm especially unsettling.”
– Erica Pandey, editor, Axios, 2026.
• “AI is a combination of a wise mentor, an unpaid intern and a garbage can full of rabid raccoons.”
– Anonymous.
• “It is not the strongest species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change.”
– Charles Darwin (attributed).
• “Artificial intelligence is not bad for newsrooms. It’s the future of them.”
– Chris Quinn, editor, Cleveland Plain Dealer, 2026.
• “Mr. Altman, Mr. Amodei and Mr. Zuckerberg: In the interest of humanity, … pause AI development. It is not too late to avoid disaster. Stop building machines that humans cannot control.”
– Sen. Bernie Sanders, letter to the heads of OpenAI, Anthropic & Meta, 2026.
• “The best way to understand it emotionally is we are like somebody who has this really cute tiger cub. Unless you can be very sure that it’s not gonna want to kill you when it’s grown up, you should worry.”
– Dr. Geoffrey Hinton, “Godfather of AI” and Nobel Prize-winner, 2025.
