{"id":18135,"date":"2015-10-05T11:04:19","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T18:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/ray-kurzweil-on-artificial-intelligence-dont-listen-to-stephen-hawking-and-elon-musk"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:21:56","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:21:56","slug":"ray-kurzweil-on-artificial-intelligence-dont-listen-to-stephen-hawking-and-elon-musk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/ray-kurzweil-on-artificial-intelligence-dont-listen-to-stephen-hawking-and-elon-musk","title":{"rendered":"Ray Kurzweil on Artificial Intelligence: Don\u2019t Listen to Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ray-kurzweil-on-artificial-intelligence-dont-listen-to-stephen-hawking-and-elon-musk.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a rift emerging among the members of the tech super-geniuses club. It\u2019s not about matters of human intelligence, though. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-30290540\" target=\"_blank\">Physicist Stephen Hawking<\/a> and <strong>Tesla <\/strong>\/<strong>SpaceX<\/strong> founder Elon Musk have both recently warned that our sci-fi nightmares about artificial intelligence could actually come true in our lifetimes.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what Musk, for instance, <a href=\"http:\/\/bostinno.streetwise.co\/2014\/10\/24\/elon-musk-mit-video-ai-spacex-mars-mission-artificial-intelligence\/\" target=\"_blank\">said during a recent stop at MIT<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I think we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. Our biggest existential threat is probably that \u2026 There should be some regulatory oversight at the national and international level, just to make sure that we don\u2019t do something very foolish. With artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon. In all those stories where there\u2019s the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, it\u2019s like, he\u2019s sure he can control the demon. Didn\u2019t work out.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bostinno.streetwise.co\/2014\/12\/21\/ray-kurzweil-vs-stephen-hawking-on-artificial-intelligence-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a rift emerging among the members of the tech super-geniuses club. It\u2019s not about matters of human intelligence, though. Physicist Stephen Hawking and Tesla \/SpaceX founder Elon Musk have both recently warned that our sci-fi nightmares about artificial intelligence could actually come true in our lifetimes. Here\u2019s what Musk, for instance, said during a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,2018,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-ray-kurzweil","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18135","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18135"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69413,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18135\/revisions\/69413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}