Artificial Intelligence Could End Human Race Warn MIT Scientists (+ Video)

Humanity’s Biggest Threat?  Artificial Intelligence Could End Human Race  

The eminent British physicist Stephen Hawking warns that the development of intelligent machines could pose a major threat to humanity.

Humanity’s biggest threat?

Fears about developing intelligent machines go back centuries. More recent pop culture is rife with depictions of machines taking over, from the computer HAL in Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey” to Arnold Schwarzenegger’s character in “The Terminator” films.

It’s not the first time Hawking has warned about the potential dangers of artificial intelligence. In April, Hawking penned an op-ed for The Huffington Post with well-known physicists Max Tegmark and Frank Wilczek of MIT, and computer scientist Stuart Russell of the University of California, Berkeley, forecasting that the creation of AI will be “the biggest event in human history.” Unfortunately, it may also be the last, the scientists wrote.

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 Advancements to Artificial Intelligence on a grander scale could eventually lead to our own extinction.

“The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race,” Hawking said. ”It would take off on its own, and re-design itself at an ever increasing rate.”  http://dailycaller.com/2014/12/02/stephen-hawking-warns-artificial-intelligence-could-be-the-end-of-the-human-race/