Select items from the office of the late and eminent theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking will go on display at the Science Museum in London next year. The announcement comes following an acceptance in lieu agreement, which allows families to offset tax, between the Cambridge University Library, the Science Museum Group and the UK Government. Thanks to this, Professor Hawking's considerable collection of scientific and personal papers will remain in Cambridge in the collections of the university library. This archive includes correspondence dating from 1944–2008, a first draft of a'Brief History of Time' and a highlighted script from his first cameo on'The Simpsons'. The contents of his office at Cambridge's Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, meanwhile, will join the collections of the Science Museum. Among the items being preserved are Professor Hawking's personal wheelchairs -- which he needed due to motor neuron disease -- and communication equipment.

Two years ago Stephen Hawking told the BBC that the development of full artificial intelligence, could spell the end of the human race. His was not the only voice warning of the dangers of AI - Elon Musk, Bill Gates and Steve Wozniak also expressed their concerns about where the technology was heading - though Professor Hawking's was the most apocalyptic vision of a world where robots decide they don't need us any more. What all of these prophets of AI doom wanted to do was to get the world thinking about where the science was heading - and make sure other voices joined the scientists in that debate. That they have achieved that aim was evident on Wednesday night at an event in Cambridge marking the opening of the Centre for the Future of Intelligence, designed to do some of that thinking about the implications of AI. And Professor Hawking was there to help launch the centre.

Humans must leave Earth in the next 200 years if we want to survive. That was the stark warning issued by Professor Stephen Hawking in the months before his death today at the age of 76. The legendary physicists believed that life on Earth could be quickly wiped out by a disaster, such as an asteroid strike, AI, over-population and climate change. He believed, if our species had any hope of survival, future generations would need to forge a new life in space. Humans must leave Earth within 200 years if we want to survive.

Professor Stephen Hawking is one of the world's most well-known scientists and has had his life story told in books, documentaries, and Oscar-winning dramas. But conspiracy theorists claim we hardly know anything about the award-winning physicist, who celebrated his 76th birthday on Monday. For there are certain corners of the internet where people are convinced that the real Professor Hawking died decades ago and that in the intervening years the political and scientific elite have installed a lookalike to act in his place. Some of those who believe he has been supplanted think Professor Hawking, Director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology within the University of Cambridge, died in 1985 - three years before the publication of his best-selling book A Brief History of Time. The idea might seem outlandish, but conspiracy theorists have outlined six signs that they claim clearly support their idea, ranging from the way he looks to the complexity of his theories.

Earth is becoming too small and humanity is bound to self-destruct, with AI replacing us as the dominant being on the planet, according to scientist Stephen Hawking. Professor Hawking says that our time on Earth is numbered after we passed the point of "no return". The theoretical physicist says that developments in AI have been so great that the machines will one day be more dominant than human beings, express.co.uk reported. He told Wired Magazine: "I fear that AI may replace humans altogether. If people design computer viruses, someone will design AI that improves and replicates itself. "This will be a new form of life that outperforms humans." Hawking, 75, said that humans need to leave Earth if we are to continue as a species. He said a new space programme should be humanity's top priority "with a view to eventually colonising suitable planets for human habitation". This will allow us to leave Earth and colonise another planet to ensure our survival, otherwise there will be "serious consequences". Professor Hawking added: "I believe we have reached the point of no return.

Stephen Hawking, widely considered to be the most accomplished theoretical physicist in the entire world has made no secret of his fears that the technology behind artificial intelligence is developing faster than human beings can keep up with, and could eventually lead to a destruction of the human race. Now he has proposed a solution to this terrifying potential problem although he believes the solution could prove to be an even greater threat to the world. Speaking to The Times, Professor Hawking explained his fears about the threat posed by artificial intelligence. "Since civilization began, aggression has been useful since it has definite survival advantages, " he said, "It is hard-wired 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. We need to control this inherited instinct by our logic and reason."

Technology must be controlled in order to safeguard the future of humanity, Stephen Hawking has warned. The physicist, who has spoken out about the dangers of artificial intelligence in the past, says a'world government' could be our only hope. He says our'logic and reason' could be the only way to defeat the growing threat of nuclear or biological war. We are living through the most dangerous time in the history of the human race, according to Professor Stephen Hawking. 'Since civilisation began, aggression has been useful inasmuch as it has definite survival advantages,' he told The Times. 'It is hard-wired 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.

In 2014, Professor Hawking warned that: The development of (true) artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race, (Cellan-Jones, Technology correspondent, BBC). In a follow up later this month, he is again reported as saying that artificial intelligence could be humanity's greatest disaster

A sinister threat is brewing deep inside the technology laboratories of Silicon Valley. Artificial Intelligence, disguised as helpful digital assistants and self-driving vehicles, is gaining a foothold – and it could one day spell the end for mankind. This is according to Stephen Hawking who has warned that humanity faces an uncertain future as technology learns to think for itself and adapt to its environment. A group of scientists and entrepreneurs, including Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking (pictured), have signed an open letter promising to ensure AI research benefits humanity. Google has set up an ethics board to oversee its work in artificial intelligence.

The end of the human race - that is what is in sight if we develop full artificial intelligence, according to Stephen Hawking in an interview with the BBC. But how imminent is the danger and if it is remote, do we still need to worry about the implications of ever smarter machines? My question to Professor Hawking about artificial intelligence comes in the context of the work done by machine learning experts at the British firm Swiftkey, who have helped upgrade his communications system. So I talk to Swiftkey's co-founder and chief technical officer, Ben Medlock, a computer scientist with a Cambridge doctorate which focuses on how software can understand nuance in language. Ben Medlock told me that Professor Hawking's intervention should be welcomed by anyone working in artificial intelligence: "It's our responsibility to think about all of the consequences good and bad", he told me.