Amongst dramatic progressions into the development of AI and its assimilation into society, many fear of the sinister consequences the machines may have, including none other than Gary Numan
Pop icon Gary Numan says humans will soon be extinct as robots will take over the world.
The 67-year-old singer and pioneer of New Wave music, who has sold more than 10 million records, says Artificial Intelligence could be ‘the end of us’.
The Cars singer, real name Gary Webb, said this week: “AI could be the end of us. When it becomes self-aware, we’ll be considered a nuisance.”
He added: “All humanity does is stop the world running smoothly. We are on the cusp of extinction caused by our own stupidity…the sooner we’re gone, the better off nature will be.”
The dad-of-three echoed the views of Nobel Prize winner Sir Demis Hassabis, who recently said that humans could be ‘obsolete’ within the next decade.
Sir Demis, the chief executive and co-founder of Google DeepMind, said that when robots become ‘self aware’ and can outperform humans, there will be nothing stopping them.
Legendary film director Ridley Scott – famed for making Blade Runner, Alien and Gladiator – raised similar worries. He said that the world will ‘turn medieval’ when AI takes over.
Scott warned: “With AI, the first thing you ask of it is to design an AI smarter than itself…then you get one smarter than you are. At what moment do you overload it with so much information it gets pressure?
“Pressure is emotion. And when that thing’s emotional, we are in trouble. If the AI doesn’t like us, we’re in deep shit.”
Others who fear a robot takeover include rapper Ice-T, who says he reckoned robots will end up ‘eating us’. Speaking recently, he said: “I don’t think there’s anything we can do to stop technology coming to eat us.
“Have you ever seen a movie about the future where it was happy?”
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