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in 2017 the biggest names in the tech world we're talking about hacking space travel and the terrifying rise of AI so did our tech luminaries have their finger on the pulse or do they get it terribly terribly wrong let's take a look back at the strangest and most notable quotes of the tech world this year first up uber in between revelations of sexual harassment and a hack that exposed 57 million users it's been a bad year for the ride-sharing company but no one had it worse than former CEO Travis kalanick if you're fending off claims of harassment and a bro culture at your company it's not a good idea to be secretly filmed ranting at your uber driver some people don't like to take responsibility for their own Kalen it was recorded saying well he certainly had to take responsibility for that one he is no longer CEO of uber number two is Elon Musk now this man seems to run half of the companies in the Silicon Valley but he has some major qualms with artificial intelligence according to musk AI harbors more risk than North Korea and will be the most likely cause of World War three but this is the comment that had us really worried AI is a fundamental risk to the existence of human civilization he said in July so we're screwed number three security fails if it wasn't one of cry locking down our computers it was Equifax somehow compromising the personal data of half the US population Equifax discovered a vulnerability in its systems in March but former CEO Richard Smith blamed a bad scanner and a single employee for failing to catch it Equifax was entrusted with Americans private data and we let them down he said yes you did and I'd say that letdown was a bit of an understatement at number four diversity in Silicon Valley 2017 was the year former Google engineer James day Moore declared women on average have more neuroticism higher anxiety and lower stress tolerance our biological determinism that old chestnut but the year that brought us hashtag me too also saw Silicon Valley making a hash of their mere Colpitts when tech evangelist Robert Scoble was accused of inappropriate behavior by a number of he declared none of them were ever in a position where I could make or break their careers yeah that's not how that works coab eliza and finally our vote for strangers quote of 2017 was it Google home telling us Republican sequel Nazis or Elon Musk telling us the quickest way from New York to Shanghai was a big rocket let's give the last word to the US president who tweeted this gem in May despite the constant negative press to feffy and so say all of us mr. president all right what was your favorite quote of 2017 you can tweet your hot takes to me on Twitter or you can head to see Netcom to read about the year that was this is Claire Riley signing out on 2017