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Astronomer Royal Says Robots Might Wipe Out Humanity
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Astronomer Royal Sir Martin Rees has said he believes the world is facing an “inorganic post-human era” where robots will surpass people.
He has estimated that in the next 25 years the intelligence of robots will rival and surpass that of humans.
Dailymail.co.uk reports:
Sir Martin, who is one of the world’s most eminent astronomers, says that while Earth has existed for 45 million centuries, this century is special. Over nearly all of Earth’s history, threats have come from nature, but from now on, the worst dangers come from us – and specifically artificial intelligence.
He says that by any definition of ‘thinking’, the amount and intensity that’s done by organic human-type brains will, in the far future, be swamped by the intelligence of AI.
‘There are chemical and metabolic limits to the size and processing power of organic brains,’ wrote Sir Rees, in an opinion piece for the Telegraph.
‘Maybe humans are close to these limits already.
‘But there are no such constraints on silicon-based computers.
‘For these, the potential for further development could be as dramatic as the evolution from monocellular organisms to humans.’
The fact that AI isn’t constrained by Earth’s biosphere, makes it an even deadlier threat.
‘Interplanetary and interstellar space will be the preferred arena where robotic fabricators will have the grandest scope for construction,’ said the Astronomer Royal.
Source: http://truthisscary.com/2015/05/astronomer-royal-says-robots-might-wipe-out-humanity/
