Stephen Hawking: AI could be 'worst thing to happen to humanity' read more at here www.spinonews.com/index.php/item/1369-stephen-hawking-ai-could-be-worst-thing-to-happen-to-humanity

Physicist Stephen Hawking believes the development of human-like A.I. technologies could be the worst thing that’s ever happened to humanity, if it is not properly managed.

 As Artificial Intelligence  becomes more advanced it could bring dangers such as "powerful autonomous weapons, or new ways for the few to oppress the many".

 

At the opening of Cambridge University’s Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (LCFI), A.I. research, Hawking said, “the rise of powerful A.I. will either be the best, or the worst thing, ever to happen to humanity.”

It is not the first time Professor Hawking has warned about the potential dangers, having previously said that AI could end mankind if it is misused.

“We cannot predict what we might achieve when our minds are amplified by Artificial Intelligence. 

Perhaps with the tools of this new technological revolution, we will be able to undo some of the damage done to the natural world by the last one – industrialisation.