Illah Reza Nourbakhsh:

Ideally, the rapid expansion of robots' roles in society would be matched by equally impressive advances in regulation and in tort and liability law, so that societies could deal with the issues of accountability and responsibility that will inevitably crop up in the coming years. But the pace of change in robotics is far outstripping the ability of regulators and lawmakers to keep up, especially as large corporations pour massive investments into secretive robotics projects that are nearly invisible to government regulators.

Radiolab:

Once we realize what we can do, we wonder whether we should.

Martin Wolf:

So-called big data is clearly helping decision-making. But many of its products -- ultra-high-speed trading, for example -- are either socially and economically irrelevant or, quite possibly, harmful.

Jennifer Lynch, senior staff attorney at EFF:

Once the nation has a facial recognition database, and once facial recognition capabilities improve to the point that we can identify faces in a crowd, it will become possible for authorities to identify people as they move through society.

G.W. Schulz and Amanda Pike:

Like many cities around the country, Los Angeles is grappling with unease from residents over thousands of networked cameras that can peer into many corners of our lives, often without us being fully aware of it.

Dayton Police Chief Richard Biehl:

I want them to be worried that we're watching.