Horace Dediu: The data under scrutiny is, as usual, the data that can be gathered. Unfortunately the data that can't be gathered is where the insight into what is happening may lie.
Alex Peysakhovich: The things we can measure are never exactly what we care about.
Konstantin Kakaes: The central claim of data proponents is that data always has some positive value. This premise is false.
Dominic Brown: On average, 69% of an organization's data is has no business, legal, or regulatory value.
Freeman Dyson: Science is not concerned only with things that we understand. The most exciting and creative parts of science are concerned with things that we are still struggling, to understand. Wrong theories are not an impediment to the progress of science. They are a central part of the struggle.
Josh Dzieza: We're building systems the full repercussions of which we don't yet understand, and the idea of opting out of them is a myth.
Sue Halpern: Business, of course, is self-interested and resists regulation. We, the people, are on our own here -- though if the AI developers have their way, not for long.
Mike Loukides: In the future, we will be increasingly reliant on systems that we can't necessarily trust to do our bidding, and that fail in nondeterministic ways.
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