Stephen Hawking: Creating AI Would Be The Biggest Event in Human History. Unfortunately, It Might Also Be The Last

Once you let AI get out of control, you may never get it back.

Stephen Hawking makes points many of us wonder at as we watch certain things unfold without a thought: is it really wise to race headlong toward artificial intelligence? And if we do so successfully, is there any going back?

The public ignores what's happening:  it seems too fantastic, possibly too inevitable, but in either case too remote to care. But if Kurzweil's thesis is vaguely true (some wise men disagree), the worlds of Terminator and the Matrix might not be far off. Does this deserve public debate -- or at least some serious consideration among technologists -- in a world of increasingly sophisticated aerial and even submarine drones? Of course it does, exactly as it did in Terminators 2 & 3. And its getting exactly as much such debate as it did therein.

But don't believe me. Believe Stephen Hawking. -- RDM