An ethicist is somebody who sees something wrong with whatever you have in mind.

Will robots inherit the earth? Yes, but they will be our children.

It would be as useless to perceive how things 'actually look' as it would be to watch the random dots on untuned television screens.

Logic doesn't apply to the real world.

No computer has ever been designed that is ever aware of what it's doing; but most of the time, we aren't either.

We wanted to solve robot problems and needed some vision, action, reasoning, planning, and so forth. We even used some structural learning, such as was being explored by Patrick Winston.

General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything else.