A former Google boss has said artificial intelligence is likely to view humanity as ‘scum’ that needs to be controlled and could even invent its own ‘killing machines’ to wipe us out.
AI is likely to view humans as “scum” who need to be controlled – and could easily create its own “killing machines”, a tech guru has warned.
Mo Gawdat, former chief business officer for Google’s research and development wing called X, fears a real-life dystopian future akin to that of Will Smith’s sci-fi movie I, Robot, in which artificial intelligence decides it needs to take over and cull people.
Though Gawdat believes such a showdown is still “a bit far away” he has warned humanity is set to give technology enough power to dictate its own agenda.