{"id":56871,"date":"2017-04-27T03:22:33","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T10:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/stephen-hawkings-question-to-china-will-ai-help-or-destroy-the-human-race"},"modified":"2017-04-27T03:22:33","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T10:22:33","slug":"stephen-hawkings-question-to-china-will-ai-help-or-destroy-the-human-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/stephen-hawkings-question-to-china-will-ai-help-or-destroy-the-human-race","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Hawking\u2019s question to China: will AI help or destroy the human race?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/stephen-hawkings-question-to-china-will-ai-help-or-destroy-the-human-race2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stephen Hawking has warned China that the rise of powerful artificial intelligence could be \u201ceither the best or the worst thing ever to happen to humanity\u201d as the country\u2019s technology companies pour resources into competing with Western rivals in a race to dominate the field.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>World-renowned physicist\u2019s stark warning comes amid fierce global competition to develop artificial intelligence technology.<\/p>\n<p>PUBLISHED : Thursday, 27 April, 2017, 3:48pm.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATED : Thursday, 27 April, 2017, 3:48pm.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/china-tech\/article\/2091151\/stephen-hawkings-question-china-will-ai-help-or-destroy-human-race\">http:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/china-tech\/article\/2091151\/stephen-...human-race<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Hawking has warned China that the rise of powerful artificial intelligence could be \u201ceither the best or the worst thing ever to happen to humanity\u201d as the country\u2019s technology companies pour resources into competing with Western rivals in a race to dominate the field. World-renowned physicist\u2019s stark warning comes amid fierce global competition to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56871","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\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}