Even Stephen Hawking has no clue what the future of AI holds

"In short, the rise of powerful AI will be either the best or the worst thing ever to happen to humanity," Hawking said this week at the opening of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence in Cambridge, England. "We do not yet know which." The LCFI, which opened Monday, is part of the University of Cambridge's Centre for the Study of Existential Risk. Their goal is to answer some of the biggest questions facing the rapidly advancing field -- including what it all means, and how to keep AI from killing us. In the past, Hawking has warned that AI could end mankind.