Aubrey de Grey

Public enthusiasm for new advances is a key ingredient in influencing policy-makers to stimulate follow-up work with suitable funding, and it can be achieved far faster now that interested non-specialists can explore new research autonomously and can also be appealed to directly by scientists.

English Author

St. Vincent

A song has a life of its own. It's an autonomous thing, separate from your own experience, almost. And the mere repetition of it means it's subject to change; it means approaching it differently, expressing different emotional aspects of it. It doesn't feel like wallowing.

American Musician

Alissa Quart

Instead of working to give robots personhood status, we should concentrate on protecting our human workers. If that means developing a more cooperative approach to ownership of autonomous trucks so millions of drivers are not left out in the literal cold, so be it.

American Writer

Penelope Mitchell

Melbourne, where I grew up, is one of the street art capitals of the world. Something about discovering freshly painted walls always fills me with optimism; it's autonomous and democratic, and reminds me that maybe people are paying attention after all.

Australian Actress

Vaclav Havel

Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace.

Czechoslovakian Leader

Anne McClain

We're using the space station as a test bed for some of the technologies that are going to enable us to work autonomously in space and hit some of our deep-space exploration goals.

American Astronaut

Geoffrey Hinton

I am scared that if you make the technology work better, you help the NSA misuse it more. I'd be more worried about that than about autonomous killer robots.

British Psychologist

James Gosling

The notion of having a fleet of autonomous ocean-going vehicles wandering the world collecting data is something out of fiction.

Canadian Scientist

Masayoshi Son

The autonomous car is definitely coming, and when that stage comes, this ride-share business becomes even more important.

Japanese Businessman

Ava DuVernay

The studios aren't lining up to make films about black protagonists, black people being autonomous and independent.

American Director

Indicates increased self-reliance and less dependence on others.

Personal Growth

Implies personal accountability for one's actions and choices.

Responsibility

Often associated with cutting-edge technology and future advancements.

Modern Innovation

Highlights debates on reliability and security in technology, especially in transportation.

Safety Concerns

Reflects a degree of independence from central authority in governance.

Self-Rule

Can represent a region's pursuit to preserve and manage its unique traditions and norms.

Cultural Identity

 these are some of the potential applications for commercial drones, and their enablers are the capabilities being developed at research facilities around the world. For example, before aerial package delivery entered our social consciousness, an autonomous fleet of flying machines built a six-meter-tall tower

Meet the dazzling flying...

 being made by those who are who are waging that war the one thing that strikes you when you get out there is just how kind of resourceful these guys are how autonomous and how alone I mean how on their own they are yeah we have the most powerful military the world's ever created but these guys

Inside the Green Berets:...

 to create autonomous looms. And in those autonomous looms, he gained control. He could now make fabrics that were more complex and more sophisticated than the ones they were able to do by hand. But also, by winning that industrial war, he laid out what has become the blueprint of automation.

A bold idea to replace...

 But new technology is making this kind of ethical analysis more important than ever. For example, driver-less cars may have to handle choices like causing a small accident to prevent a larger one. Meanwhile, governments are researching autonomous military drones

Would you sacrifice one...

 And again, everything is autonomous, and all Quentin has to do is to give them a blueprint of the design that he wants to build. So all these experiments you've seen thus far, all these demonstrations, have been done with the help of motion-capture systems.

Robots that fly ... and...

 It does this by converting a lot of our uncertainties into certainties. So I think we need to start preparing ourselves, because we are about to face a world where distributed, autonomous institutions have quite a significant role.

How the blockchain will...

 And here's mobile manipulation, where we've put an arm on the robot, and it's finding its way through the door. Now, one of the important things about making autonomous robots is to make them not do just exactly what you say,

Meet Spot, the robot dog...

 in a world where cars are electric and where they're self-driving, there may end up being more cars on the roads on any given hour than there are now? Yeah, exactly. A lot of people think that when you make cars autonomous,

Elon Musk: The future...

 with minimal autonomy that's IBM's Watson the program to beat the world champion in jeopardy but didn't even know it one not very threatening think about computer viruses they're dangerous they're autonomous but they're not

Why we shouldn’t fear...

 about the species and habitats of what lie beneath by sending robots or autonomous vehicles to gather information on their behalf all on rare occasions she gets to go down there herself in a submersible with one tiny round

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