Stephen Hawking reminds us technology will kill us all and it's all our fault

We are well into 2017 and the situation hasn't got any better, so here comes the routine alert from world-renowned theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking that we're all gonna die -- and it's all our fault. SEE ALSO: Smart people everywhere celebrate Stephen Hawking's 75th birthday During an interview with The Times, Hawking repeated the concept that humanity faces existential threats from climate change, artificial intelligence and mass species extinction. "Since civilisation began, aggression has been useful in as much as it has definite survival advantages," he said. "It is hardwired into our genes by Darwinian evolution. "Now, however, technology has advanced at such a pace that this aggression may destroy us all by nuclear or biological war," he continued. "We need to control this inherited instinct by our logic and reason.