A Vast Machine watched and evaluated them, remembering their past actions and predicting their future… — John Twelve Hawks

All language – everything we say – is just an approximation of reality.

It took me years to realize that a computer would never truly be able to say cogito ego sum although dozens of lurid Hollywood movies about robots want to leave that impression. A computer thinks....that is, it realizes it has been switched on...but it doesn't know it exists.

Artificial intelligence is a concept that obscures accountability. Our problem is not machines acting like humans -- it’s humans acting like machines.