We need to use the downtime, when things are calm, to prepare for when things get serious in the decades to come. The time we have now is valuable, and we need to make use of it.

Demis Hassabis, quoted in "Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk Cade Metz and the Feud over Killer Robots", Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and the Feud over Killer Robots, The New York Times, 2018