The Terminator could become REAL: Intelligent AI robots capable of DESTROYING mankind
FREE-THINKING AI robots could end up destroying mankind or even completely change what it means to be human if we let them think for themselves, a scientist has warned.
By JON AUSTIN
Arnie as the Terminator in the film series and a nuclear mushroom cloud | YouTube•GETTY
Dr Amnon Eden said more needs to be done to look at the risks of continuing towards an AI world.
He warned that we were getting close to the point of no return in terms of AI, without a proper understanding of the consequences.
Dr Eden said: “The New Year needs to see this ill-informed controversy replaced by a better informed analysis of the potential impact of AI and of its applications.
“In 2016 expert risk analysis must gain a far greater role in the thinking of policy and decision makers, of governments and corporations.”
Dr Eden is principal of the Sapience Project, a think-tank which has been formed to look at the potential disruptive impact of artificial intelligence AI.
Science fiction has regularly explored whether robots could destroy mankind, most famously the Terminator films starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Dr Eden’s stance comes after Oxford Professor Nick Bostrom said that super intelligence AI may “advance to a point where its goals are not compatible with that of humans”.