{"id":10305,"date":"2014-03-08T13:55:35","date_gmt":"2014-03-08T21:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=10305"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:09:07","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:09:07","slug":"artificial-intelligence-could-kill-us-all-meet-the-man-who-takes-that-risk-seriously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/artificial-intelligence-could-kill-us-all-meet-the-man-who-takes-that-risk-seriously","title":{"rendered":"Artificial Intelligence could kill us all. Meet the man who takes that risk seriously"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"article-author-name\">By <a title=\"Posts by Martin Bryant\" href=\"http:\/\/thenextweb.com\/author\/martin\/\" rel=\"author\">Martin Bryant<\/a> \u2014 The Next Web<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Thinking about the end of the world is something that most people try to avoid; for others, it\u2019s a profession. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fhi.ox.ac.uk\/\">Future of Humanity Institute<\/a> at the University of Oxford, UK specializes in looking at the \u2018big-picture\u2019 future of the human race, and notably, the risks that could wipe us out entirely.<\/p>\n<p>As you\u2019d probably imagine, the risks considered by the Institute include things like nuclear war and meteor strikes, but one perhaps unexpected area that it\u2019s looking into is the potential threat posed by artificial intelligence. Could computers become so smart that they become our rivals, take all our jobs and eventually wipe us all out? This Terminator-style scenario used to seem like science fiction, but it\u2019s starting to be taken seriously by those who watch the way technology is developing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thenextweb.com\/insider\/2014\/03\/08\/ai-could-kill-all-meet-man-takes-risk-seriously\/#!y07EQ\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Martin Bryant \u2014 The Next Web Thinking about the end of the world is something that most people try to avoid; for others, it\u2019s a profession. The Future of Humanity Institute at the University of Oxford, UK specializes in looking at the \u2018big-picture\u2019 future of the human race, and notably, the risks that could [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-existential-risks","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10305"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65024,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10305\/revisions\/65024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}