{"id":9275,"date":"2013-12-07T18:11:59","date_gmt":"2013-12-08T02:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=9275"},"modified":"2017-04-26T13:09:01","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T20:09:01","slug":"our-final-invention-how-the-human-race-goes-and-gets-itself-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/our-final-invention-how-the-human-race-goes-and-gets-itself-killed","title":{"rendered":"Our Final Invention: How the Human Race Goes and Gets Itself Killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realcleartechnology.com\/authors\/greg_scoblete\/\"><b>Greg Scoblete \u2014 Real Clear Technology<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>We worry about robots.<\/p>\n<p>Hardly a day goes by where we\u2019re not reminded about how robots are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/future_tense\/2013\/12\/03\/tablets_at_restaurants_applebee_s_chili_s_race_to_eliminate_human_interaction.html\">taking our jobs<\/a> and hollowing out the middle class. The worry is so acute that economists are busy devising new social contracts to cope with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realcleartechnology.com\/articles\/2013\/09\/23\/almost_half_of_modern_jobs_threatened_by_machines_715.html\">potentially enormous class of obsolete humans<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Documentarian James Barrat, author of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Our-Final-Invention-Artificial-Intelligence-ebook\/dp\/B00CQYAWRY\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1386282251&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=our+final+invention&tag=lifeboatfound-20\">Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era<\/a>, <\/em>is worried about robots too. Only he\u2019s not worried about them taking our jobs. He\u2019s worried about them exterminating the human race.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll repeat that: In 267 brisk pages, Barrat lays out just how the artificial intelligence (AI) that companies like Google and governments like our own are racing to perfect could \u2014 indeed, likely will \u2014 advance to the point where it will literally destroy all human life on Earth. Not put it out of work. Not meld with it in a utopian fusion. Destroy it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.realcleartechnology.com\/articles\/2013\/12\/06\/our_final_invention_how_the_human_race_goes_and_gets_itself_killed_816.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Greg Scoblete \u2014 Real Clear Technology We worry about robots. Hardly a day goes by where we\u2019re not reminded about how robots are taking our jobs and hollowing out the middle class. The worry is so acute that economists are busy devising new social contracts to cope with a potentially enormous class of obsolete [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,14,30,385,12,20,386,37,1500,6,64,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-complex-systems","category-defense","category-ethics","category-evolution","category-existential-risks","category-futurism","category-homo-sapiens","category-human-trajectories","category-posthumanism","category-robotics-ai","category-singularity","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9275","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=9275"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56407,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9275\/revisions\/56407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}