AI Singularity: Are we creating our own destruction?

Stephen Hawking: AI Could be ‘Worst Mistake in History’

Stephen Hawking, the world’s most famous physicist, has issued a warning about artificial intelligence (AI), saying it could be “the biggest event in human history,” but also “the last.”
In an op-ed published in The Independent, Hawking and three other scientists write it would be the “worst mistake in history” to dismiss the threat of AI, and that not enough research is being devoted to the possible risks involved.
The op-ed cites several achievements in the field of AI, including self-driving cars, Siri and the computer that won Jeopardy! However, “such achievements will probably pale against what the coming decades will bring.”

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