ROBOT WARS: Our real enemy could be man made and they're already here

However, for the most part, these events are not new. Our planet has always been a dangerous place to live (climate change or no). Despots and regimes have, throughout history, posed a threat to humanity. While it's easy to ignore the dangers that these pose and leave it to the scientists or politicians to fix, we all may be about to enter uncharted waters with a new threat to our species…. In July this year, Facebook had to temporarily suspend its Artificial Intelligence (AI) research when two of its'chatbots' (Alice and Bob) began communicating with each other in a language they developed, independent of their programmers.