Stephen Hawking; AI Could Mean End of the Human Race

Remember this genius who was confined to a wheelchair and used a voice box to communicate?  Turns out he had a pretty intense prediction about Artificial Intelligence.  Remember that all of this technology literally exploded into being in just the last 100 years. Remember also that Daniel told us “knowledge will increase” as the return of Jesus draws near...and certainly these last 100 years have taken us from farming with horses to cameras on Mars.  Think about it!

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Long before Elon Musk and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak signed a letter warning that artificial intelligence poses "profound risks" to humanity, British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking had been sounding the alarm on the rapidly evolving technology.

"The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race," Hawking told the BBC in an interview in 2014.

Hawking, who suffered from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) for more than 55 years, died in 2018 at the age of 76. Though he had critical remarks on AI, he also used a very basic form of the technology in order to communicate due to his disease, which weakens muscles and required Hawking to use a wheelchair.

Hawking’s comment to the BBC in 2014 that AI could "spell the end of the human race" was in response to a question about potentially revamping the voice technology he relied on. He told the BBC that very basic forms of AI had already proven powerful but creating systems that rival human intelligence or surpass it could be disastrous for the human race.

"It would take off on its own and re-design itself at an ever-increasing rate," he said.

 https://www.foxnews.com/tech/flashback-stephen-hawking-warned-ai-end-human-race-years-leading-death