Risk of robot uprising wiping out human race to be studied

[JMH]

Cambridge researchers are to assess whether technology could end up destroying human civilisation.

The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER) will study dangers posed by biotechnology, artificial life, nanotechnology and climate change.

The scientists said that to dismiss concerns of a potential robot uprising would be "dangerous".

Fears that machines may take over have been central to the plot of some of the most popular science fiction films.

Perhaps most famous is Skynet, a rogue computer system depicted in the Terminator films.

Skynet gained self-awareness and fought back after first being developed by the US military.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20501091

 

[Corrine]

I thought at first that this was about one of the Terminator movies. :banghead:

 

[AceInfinity]

I was thinking more along the lines of the movie IRobot when I first read this title.

 

[Temmu]

son-of-a-gun!
~they~'re on to me!

 

[Temmu]

this is the world's largest machine. period. - hi-larious video about robots taking over world...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0k3Mc5HB2eg