Professor: Robots to Take Over for Humans Within 30 Years

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More and more scientists are warning that within three decades superhuman robots could take over every job currently held by human beings.

http://www.trunews.com/article/prof-robots-to-take-over-for-humans-within-30-years

According to cosmologist Max Tegmark, the world has little over 30 years to address the possibility of humans being replaced by superhuman machines—and that is the gravest threat facing humanity. Tegmark, who founded the Future of Life Institute alongside business magnate Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking, told the United Kingdom Express newspaper:

>"I think we have very little time to stave off this stupid arms race right now, basically glorified drones that make their own kill decisions. We might have a matter of decades to deal with the question of superhuman machines, which might sound like a very long time but it might take 30 years to get answers to AI safety research questions … I think the problem is that we've traditionally thought of intelligence as something mysterious the can only exist in biological organisms, especially humans. But intelligence is simply some kind of information processing performed by elementary particles that move around according to the laws of physics. There is no law of physics that says one can’t build machines more intelligent than us. We should really start now so we have all the answers by the time we need them and not the night before some dude on Red Bull decides to switch on super intelligence."

Last week, Musk and others penned a letter warning the United Nations to implement a ban on weaponized AI systems.