Daily Mail News UK – Science
If you’re not scared of artificial intelligence (AI) yet, an expert thinks there’s a 50 per cent chance it will wipe out humanity.
Max Tegmark, a physicist and AI expert at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has given a deeply worrying prediction about our future on this planet.
According to the academic, history has shown that Earth’s smartest species – humans – are responsible for the death of ‘lesser’ species, such as the Dodo.
Therefore, if and when AI becomes smarter than humans, the same fate could easily await us, he warns.