Barack Obama on AI
2 quotes from Barack Obama on the wall, 2016 to 2017, newest first. Each one is verbatim and links to where it was said. Sources include Barack Obama Presidential Library, The American Presidency Project / WIRED.
- 2017
The relentless pace of automation
US President Barack Obama in his farewell address in Chicago in January 2017, saying the next wave of economic dislocation would not come from overseas and calling for a new social compact.
Barack Obama Presidential LibraryPresident Obama's Farewell Address
- 2016
Don't worry as much yet about machines taking over the world
President Barack Obama, interviewed on artificial intelligence by MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito and WIRED editor Scott Dadich for WIRED's guest-edited issue, October 2016.
The American Presidency Project / WIREDInterview with Joi Ito of MIT and Scott Dadich of WIRED
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