Artificial intelligence may be humanity's greatest disaster: Hawking

October 20, 2016 18:40

British physicist Stephen Hawking has warned that the creation of powerful artificial intelligence may turn out to be "the worst thing ever to happen to humanity" despite its potential benefits.

The world-renowned physicist has often been cautious about AI, raising concerns that humanity could be the architect of its own destruction if it creates a super intelligence with a will of its own.

Speaking at the opening of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at Cambridge University, he was also quick to highlight the positives that AI research can bring.

Hawking praised the creation of the academic institute dedicated to researching the future of intelligence as "crucial to the future of our civilisation and our species."

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