Practical A.I. – Part 2 – The Warning

In October 2014, speaking to students at MIT, Elon Musk (CEO of SpaceX and Tesla) proclaimed that A.I. was the greatest threat to mankind, saying "I think we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. If I had to guess at what our biggest existential threat is, it's probably that. So we need to be very careful."[i] Then, in December 2014, renowned physicist Stephen Hawking added fuel to the fire, saying "The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race … It [A.I.] would take off on its own, and re-design itself at an ever-increasing rate," he said. "Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn't compete, and would be superseded."[ii]