Bec Crew reports that physicist Stephen Hawking has warned humanity that we probably only have about 1,000 years left on Earth, and the only thing that could save us from certain extinction is setting up colonies elsewhere in the Solar System.
he suggest that we must continue to go into space for the future of humanity, Hawking said in a lecture at the University of Cambridge this week. I do not think we will survive another 1,000 years without escaping beyond our fragile planet. The fate of humanity appears to have been weighing heavily on Hawking of late ... he has also recently cautioned that artificial intelligence (AI) will be either the best, or the worst, thing ever to happen to humanity.
Given that humans are prone to making the same mistakes over and over again, even though we are obsessed with our own history and should know better, Hawking suspects that powerful autonomous weapons could have serious consequences for humanity.
As Heather Saul from The Independent reports, Hawking has estimated that self-sustaining human colonies on Mars are not going to be a viable option for another 100 years or so, which means we need to be very careful in the coming decades.
Without even taking into account the potentially devastating effects of climate change, global pandemics brought on by antibiotic resistance, and nuclear capabilities of warring nations, we could soon be sparring with the kinds of enemies we are not even close to knowing how to deal with.
Late last year, Hawking added his name to a coalition of more than 20,000 researchers and experts, including Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak, and Noam Chomsky, calling for a ban on anyone developing autonomous weapons that can fire on targets without human intervention.
As the founders of OpenAI, the Musk new research initiative dedicated to the ethics of artificial intelligence, said last year that our robots are perfectly submissive now but ...
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