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It is an issue troubling some of the greatest minds in the world at the moment, from Bill Gates to Elon Musk. SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk described AI as our'biggest existential threat' and likened its development as'summoning the demon'. He believes super intelligent machines could use humans as pets. Professor Stephen Hawking said it is a'near certainty' that a major technological disaster will threaten humanity in the next 1,000 to 10,000 years.