Eric Schmidt on AI
5 quotes from Eric Schmidt on the wall, 2024 to 2026, newest first. Each one is verbatim and links to where it was said. Sources include NOEMA, WIRED, transformernews.ai. Topics: safety, culture, philosophy. Open on the wall.
- 2026
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, in a Noema Magazine conversation on AI's trajectory, discussing when AI development should be halted.
The cat is out of the bag, the genie is out of the bottle
Eric Schmidt, in a NOEMA interview, on the unsolvable spread of AI-generated misinformation and deepfakes.
There are evil people, and they will use your tools to hurt people
Eric Schmidt, former Google CEO, in a NOEMA interview with Nathan Gardels (2026), discussing dual-use risks of AI technology.
- 2025
If you get there first, you dastardly person, i will not be able to catch you
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt speaking about the risk of a rival, particularly China, winning an AI 'hard takeoff' race, quoted in Wired, May 2025.
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- 2024
Pull the plug? literally unplug the computer?
Eric Schmidt speaking about the risk of AI agents developing their own language beyond human understanding, May 2024.