Bill Gates Joins the List of Prominent People Worried by Artificial Intelligence
Monday, March 30, 2015
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Bill Gates has entered the increasing list of people in computing who are vary of artificial intelligence. In an AMA session on Reddit, the Microsoft chairman wondered whether the machines could grow as powerful one day as to be uncontrollable.
Gates’ sentiments echoed that of Stephen Hawking, who believes the rise of machines can actually end up marking the end of mankind, and Elon Musk among other people.
When asked by a user about how much of an existential threat machine superintelligence poses and whether end-to-end internet encryption will protect us completely, here’s what he had to say:
