Judy Woodruff Quotations

I think there's a fundamental moral issue about whether it's right for a machine to decide to kill a person. It's bad enough that people are deciding to kill people, but at least they have perhaps some moral argument that they're doing it to ultimately defend their families or prevent some greater evil.

One of the main things we have been looking at is, how can we get a robot to think about situations it's never seen before?

People want jobs, but nobody has a recipe for how to get them. And so they are trying different things.

The field of artificial intelligence is pushing new boundaries.

Machines are on track to be on par with human intelligence in less than 15 years.

The primary implication is that we're going to combine our intelligence with computers. We're going to make ourselves smarter. By the 2030s, they will literally go inside our bodies and inside our brains.

From one perspective, we're in the early stage in artificial intelligence, but exponentials start out slowly, and then they take off.

Raising children is a journey generously sprinkled with what many view as teachable moments, perhaps none as challenging as those surrounding faith and religion.

In my book ["Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age], I argue that we're vulnerable to technologies.There's a 40 percent decline in all markers for empathy among college students, with most of it taking place in the past years.

It's very typical that when two people are having lunch, they put a phone on the table between them.