Ex Facebook exec says society will collapse in 30 years

The rise of robots and artificial intelligence has sent a prominent ex Facebook executive fleeing to the remote woods to hideout in belief that society is nearing collapse. Antonio García Martinez, a former Facebook product manager and Silicon Valley author, became terrified of technology and quit his job to live a life as a recluse with a bucket toilet and assault weapon in the woodlands north of Seattle. 'You may not believe it but it's coming, and it's coming in the form of a self-driving truck that's going to run you over,' he told the BBC in an upcoming two-part BBC documentary'Secrets of Silicon Valley'. Antonio García Martinez, former Facebook product manager, became terrified of technology and quit his lush executive job to live a recluse life with a bucket toilet and assault weapon in the woodlands north of Seattle, where he says Canada is'just a swim or a kayak away' The experts' main concern lies around robots developing their own unique understanding of the world, and even developing a consciousness. Owen Holland, Professor of cognitive robotics at the University of Sussex added: 'The whole of our society, our law, our education, is based around consciousness, making conscious decisions, and if we show that actually that's quite trivial and we reproduce it in an afternoon in a lab, then it could make you think'Well, how important is human life?