{"id":333678,"date":"2017-11-05T16:21:29","date_gmt":"2017-11-05T15:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-ai-may-replace-humans-become-new-form-of-life-stephen-hawking\/"},"modified":"2017-11-05T16:21:29","modified_gmt":"2017-11-05T15:21:29","slug":"prison-planet-com-ai-may-replace-humans-become-new-form-of-life-stephen-hawking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-ai-may-replace-humans-become-new-form-of-life-stephen-hawking\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb \u2018AI may replace humans\u2019 &#038; become new form of life \u2013 Stephen Hawking"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/408675-stephen-hawking-ai-replace-humans\/\"><strong>RT<\/strong><\/a><br \/>November 3, 2017<\/p>\n<p><strong>One day robots could entirely edge out human beings and become a new life form that is even capable of replicating itself, Stephen Hawking has warned, once again predicting a rather grim future for humankind.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__text text  js-mediator-article\">\n<p><em>\u201cI fear that AI may replace humans altogether,\u201d<\/em> the renowned physicist told Wired magazine, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cambridge-news.co.uk\/news\/cambridge-news\/stephenhawking-fears-artificial-intelligence-takeover-13839799\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cited<\/a> by the Cambridge News.\u00a0<em>\u201cIf people design computer viruses, someone will design AI that improves and replicates itself. This will be a new form of life that outperforms humans,\u201d<\/em> Hawking added.<\/p>\n<p>However, humanity itself has already reached <em>\u201cthe point of no return\u201d<\/em>and may destroy itself first, the 75-year-old academic predicts. <em>\u201cOur earth is becoming too small for us, global population is increasing at an alarming rate and we are in danger of self-destructing.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>To avoid this apocalyptic scenario, Hawking suggests that mankind should come up with a space program <em>\u201cwith a view to eventually colonizing suitable planets for human habitation.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time Hawking has spoken about the potential threat of robots becoming self-conscious and exceeding human intelligence. Last year, he warned the AI <em>\u201ccould develop a will of its own \u2013 a will that is in conflict with ours,\u201d<\/em> adding that the rise of machines could become <em>\u201ceither the best, or the worst thing, ever to happen to humanity.\u201d\u00a0<\/em>The scientist has also suggested moving to a different planet in the past, saying there were only some 100 years left to escape fragile Earth.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <!-- END CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:#333; font-size:11px;\">This article was posted: Friday, November 3, 2017  at  8:09 am<\/p>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/><!-- share and follow --><br \/>\n      <!-- end of share and follow --><\/p>\n<div class=\"print_sub\">\n<h3 class=\"sub_titles\">&#13;<br \/>\n        \t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/ai-may-replace-humans-become-new-form-of-life-stephen-hawking.html\/print\/\" title=\"Print\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"WP-PrintIcon\" src=\"https:\/\/hw.prisonplanet.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-print\/images\/printer_famfamfam.gif\" alt=\"Print\" title=\"Print\" style=\"border: 0px;\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nPrint this page.<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<p><!--\n      \n\n<div class=\"nextpage\">\n              <\/div>\n\n \n -->    <\/p>\n<p><!--\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gm2pZEeYN0E?list=UUvsye7V9psc-APX6wV1twLg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n--><\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/ai-may-replace-humans-become-new-form-of-life-stephen-hawking.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RTNovember 3, 2017 One day robots could entirely edge out human beings and become a new life form that is even capable of replicating itself, Stephen Hawking has warned, once again predicting a rather grim future for humankind. \u201cI fear that AI may replace humans altogether,\u201d the renowned physicist told Wired magazine, as cited by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-333678","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}