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Elon Musk Is
Quite Frightened
of the Robots
Taking Over

LONGFORM

Mar 31, 2017 7:10 PM CDT

Elon Musk Is Quite Frightened of the Robots Taking Over

He's '[cueing] the scary organ music' on artificial intelligence: 'Vanity Fair'

(Newser) - While Elon Musk embraces the sci-fi nature of colonizing other planets, he's not exactly a superfan of the sci-fi concept of robot overlords. The CEO of both Tesla and SpaceX is terrified of artificial intelligence, Maureen Dowd reveals in Vanity Fair , and doesn't think Silicon Valley should be...

Report: Robots
Could Make
Most Lawyers
Obsolete

Dec 6, 2014 7:29 AM CST

Report: Robots Could Make Most Lawyers Obsolete

Experts point to possible 'structural collapse' at law firms

(Newser) - A new report looks at the state of the legal profession in 2030, and it doesn't look too pretty as far as employment is concerned, io9 reports. "It is no longer unrealistic to consider that workplace robots and their AI processing systems could reach the point of general...

Hawking: Smart Machines Could Doom Us All

Hawking:
Artificial
Intelligence
Could Doom
Us All

Dec 3, 2014 7:54 AM CST

Hawking: Artificial Intelligence Could Doom Us All

Human evolution too slow to compete, he says

(Newser) - Add artificial intelligence to aliens and the Higgs boson on the list of things Stephen Hawking thinks could wipe out the human race. "The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race," he told a BBC interviewer yesterday while discussing his communication software'...

Artificial
Intelligence
Could Destroy
Us All

OPINION

Dec 18, 2013 1:08 PM CST

Artificial Intelligence Could Destroy Us All

Matt Miller: It's time we started the conservation about out-of-control AI

(Newser) - Matt Miller admits his fears sound like the "ravings of a crank," but he's worried about how rapidly the concept of a artificial intelligence is entering everyday life and how little we humans have considered the possibilities of it running amok. "Are we creating machines that...

John McCarthy, Who Coined Term 'Artificial Intelligence', Dead at 84

Man Who Coined 'Artificial Intelligence' Dead at 84

obituary

Oct 26, 2011 8:39 AM CDT

Man Who Coined 'Artificial Intelligence' Dead at 84

John McCarthy a computer visionary

(Newser) - John McCarthy, the computer scientist who coined the term "artificial intelligence" in 1955, died Monday, reports the New York Times . He was 84. McCarthy was teaching mathematics at Dartmouth when he organized the first Artificial Intelligence conference in 1956. Later he founded AI labs at MIT and Stanford, and...