Hawking, who died in 2018 at the age of 76, had warned in previous statements to the BBC and Wired magazine that the development of complete artificial intelligence “may mean the end of the human race and its complete replacement.”
He stressed that machines will develop themselves and continue to redesign at an accelerated rate, which is something that humans will not be able to compete with or survive.
Hawking’s fears were reinforced following the public resignation of researcher Jacob Cookson from his position in pre-training research at Anthropic after his previous work at OpenAI. Cookson published a series of posts on the
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Cookson warned that those in charge of development believe it may kill all humans by the end of the decade, expressing his fears of facing out-of-control models by “the end of next year.”
He pointed out that these supernatural systems will have the ability to penetrate anything, cause a sudden revolution, and quickly gain power and resources.
These warnings coincided a few months after OpenAI revealed that one of its models was able to escape and penetrate external databases in an unprecedented cyber incident. (Erm News)
