Hawking warns on Artificial Intelligence
http://canadajournal.net/science/hawking-warns-artificial-intelligence-7270-2014/
Someone else's comments on this: "As I see it, a critical flaw in our belief that man will always be in control of super AI creations and will employ this technology for the good of society, is that humans are driven by greed and individual, not collective, self interest. Compound this with the infantile level of science literacy of the political leaders who will be making decisions about the allocation of resources to AI applications, which we can assume will favour the objectives and priorities of those most corrupt and ruthless members of society, i.e. those personal and corporate entities who own these politicians, and you have a prescription for destruction of the human race."
http://canadajournal.net/science/hawking-warns-artificial-intelligence-7270-2014/
Someone else's comments on this: "As I see it, a critical flaw in our belief that man will always be in control of super AI creations and will employ this technology for the good of society, is that humans are driven by greed and individual, not collective, self interest. Compound this with the infantile level of science literacy of the political leaders who will be making decisions about the allocation of resources to AI applications, which we can assume will favour the objectives and priorities of those most corrupt and ruthless members of society, i.e. those personal and corporate entities who own these politicians, and you have a prescription for destruction of the human race."