'Eventually, I think human extinction will probably occur, and technology will likely play a part in this,' DeepMind's Shane Legg said in a recent interview. Some people believe AI will wipe out humans completely. This means driverless cars or intelligent robots could make unpredictable 'out of character' decisions during critical moments, which could put people in danger.įor instance, the AI behind a driverless car could choose to swerve into pedestrians or crash into barriers instead of deciding to drive sensibly. If experts don't understand how AI algorithms function, they won't be able to predict when they fail. More than 60 percent of people fear that robots will lead to there being fewer jobs in the next ten years, according to a 2016 YouGov survey.Īnd 27 percent predict that it will decrease the number of jobs 'a lot' with previous research suggesting admin and service sector workers will be the hardest hit.Īs well as posing a threat to our jobs, other experts believe AI could 'go rogue' and become too complex for scientists to understand.Ī quarter of the respondents predicted robots will become part of everyday life in just 11 to 20 years, with 18 percent predicting this will happen within the next decade.Ĭomputer scientist Professor Michael Wooldridge said AI machines could become so intricate that engineers don't fully understand how they work. Professor Stephen Hawking said it is a 'near certainty' that a major technological disaster will threaten humanity in the next 1,000 to 10,000 years. He believes super intelligent machines could use humans as pets. SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk described AI as our 'biggest existential threat' and likened its development as 'summoning the demon'. It is an issue troubling some of the greatest minds in the world at the moment, from Bill Gates to Elon Musk. He also pointed to the speed at which vaccines were developed in response to Covid-19, a lightning effort compared to work fighting earlier diseases, as something that made him hopeful about the power of innovation. Touching on the coronavirus pandemic, Kasparov points out that having driverless cars on the road and robots on the hospital could save more lives due to the idea that humans would not have to interact with one another. However, the grandmaster also notes that 'humanity always wins with more technology brought in.' I don't want to sound callous - people will lose jobs. Kasparov, however, is not blind to the developments of AI and knows robots will eventually replace some jobs, such as those in factories to truck drivers.
'Machines made us stronger, faster and intelligent machines will make us smarter if we know how to use it.' 'You don't expect this to bring you to heaven, but it is not going to open the gates of hell.'
'It is not a magic wand, but it is not a terminator,' he added referring to the 1984 film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.
'You should treat computers like it's another human creation,' Kasparov said during the interview. Kasparov played IBM's Deep Blue supercomputer in 1996 and again in 1997, but he lost rematch Born into what was then the Soviet Union, Kasparov became the youngest ever undisputed World Chess Champion in 1985 at age 22.