{"id":21024,"date":"2016-01-21T01:47:18","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T09:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/scientist-dismisses-stephen-hawkings-doomsday-predictions"},"modified":"2016-01-21T01:47:18","modified_gmt":"2016-01-21T09:47:18","slug":"scientist-dismisses-stephen-hawkings-doomsday-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/scientist-dismisses-stephen-hawkings-doomsday-predictions","title":{"rendered":"Scientist dismisses Stephen Hawking\u2019s doomsday predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yuste v. Hawkins \u2014 battle of the brains.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Renowned neuroscientist Rafael Yuste on Wednesday dismissed the latest doomsday predictions of Stephen Hawking, saying the British astrophysicist \u201cdoesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s talking about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a recent lecture in London, Hawking indicated that advances in science and technology will lead to \u201cnew ways things can go wrong,\u201d especially in the field of artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>Yuste, a Columbia University neuroscience professor, was less pessimistic. \u201cWe don\u2019t have enough knowledge to be able to say such things,\u201d he told Radio Cooperativa in Santiago, Chile.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/china.org.cn\/world\/Off_the_Wire\/2016-01\/21\/content_37631688.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yuste v. Hawkins \u2014 battle of the brains. Renowned neuroscientist Rafael Yuste on Wednesday dismissed the latest doomsday predictions of Stephen Hawking, saying the British astrophysicist \u201cdoesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s talking about.\u201d In a recent lecture in London, Hawking indicated that advances in science and technology will lead to \u201cnew ways things can go wrong,\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21024","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\/21024","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}