Stephen Hawking Opens British AI Lab To Create Terminator Style Machines

Stephen Hawking, the famous scientist who once said intelligent machines could be mankind's biggest threat, opened an artificial intelligence lab in Britain this week to help develop robot surgeons and Terminator-style military droids. Britain's Cambridge University will play host to the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI) as it uses a 10 million grant to bring together experts from many disciplines to develop AI robots. Scientists from around the world will use the AI lab to design and test intelligent robots that could potentially transform mankind, according to SpaceDaily. "Perhaps with the tools of this new technological revolution, we will be able to undo some of the damage done to the natural world by the last one – industrialization." Calling the creation of AI, the biggest event in the history of civilization, Hawking said the British lab hoped to help eradicate disease and poverty in our lifetime, according to Phys.org.