◾ Singularity, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Artificial Intelligence

In a television interview on December 2, 2014, Rory Cellan-Jones asked how far engineers had come along the path toward creating AI to which, slightly alarmingly, Professor Hawking replied “Once humans develop artificial intelligence it would take off on its own and redesign itself at an ever increasing rate. Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn’t compete, and would be superseded.”