Stephen Hawking Sounds AI Alarm
In today's Independent, famed-physicist Stephen Hawking joined several colleagues in sounding the alarm about the risks of artificial intelligence. Writing in the wake of the release of the Johnny Depp film Transcendence, it would be a "mistake," Hawking says, "to dismiss the notion of highly intelligent machines as mere science fiction," perhaps "our worst mistake in history." Success in creating AI, he says, would be the biggest event in human history, affording us huge pot