Stephen Hawking: artificial intelligence could destroy humanity

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is not afraid of the uprising of the machines, but some researchers do not share his point of view and warn of the dangers of artificial intelligence. At the Global mobile Internet conference in China, the famous British physicist Stephen Hawking said that the uncontrolled development of AI could destroy humanity.

“[The development of the AI] might become may be the worst thing that ever happened to mankind”

According to the scientist, with the right approach artificial intelligence will solve many problems in the world. Today it is used in fighting disease and poverty, and also helps to reduce negative human impact on the environment. At the same time, it is possible that in the future the limited biological evolution people will not be able to compete with machines and degraded. Elon Musk believes that this problem can be solvedby creating a hybrid of man and computer.

It’s time to explore the space

Stephen Hawking is not the first time expressed similar thoughts, and two years ago a scientist saidthat we will not survive the next thousand years, if not leave the Ground. Because in the next hundred years, humanity is unlikely to be able to create completely independent colonies on other planets, we need to be “very careful.”

Source: SCMP

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