{"id":104220,"date":"2020-03-24T13:43:13","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T20:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/stephen-hawking-treating-ai-as-science-fiction-would-potentially-be-our-worst-mistake-ever"},"modified":"2020-03-24T13:43:13","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T20:43:13","slug":"stephen-hawking-treating-ai-as-science-fiction-would-potentially-be-our-worst-mistake-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/stephen-hawking-treating-ai-as-science-fiction-would-potentially-be-our-worst-mistake-ever","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Hawking \u2013\u201cTreating AI as Science Fiction Would Potentially Be Our Worst Mistake Ever\u201c"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C9hP0hiEB_8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe should plan ahead,\u201d warned physicist Stephen Hawking who died last March, 2018, and was buried next to Isaac Newton. \u201cIf a superior alien civilization sent us a text message saying, \u2018We\u2019ll arrive in a few decades,\u2019 would we just reply, \u2018OK, call us when you get here, we\u2019ll leave the lights on\u2019? Probably not, but this is more or less what has happened with AI.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The memorial stone placed on top of Hawking\u2019s grave included his most famous equation describing the entropy of a black hole. \u201cHere Lies What Was Mortal Of Stephen Hawking,\u201d read the words on the stone, which included an image of a black hole.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI regard the brain as a computer,\u201d observed Hawking, \u201cwhich will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe should plan ahead,\u201d warned physicist Stephen Hawking who died last March, 2018, and was buried next to Isaac Newton. \u201cIf a superior alien civilization sent us a text message saying, \u2018We\u2019ll arrive in a few decades,\u2019 would we just reply, \u2018OK, call us when you get here, we\u2019ll leave the lights on\u2019? Probably not, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104220","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}