Steve Wozniak Is Also Concerned About Our Future Robot Overlords

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has become the latest tech figure to warn us that the computers are learning and they’re going to destroy us all at some point. “Computers are going to take over...
Steve Wozniak Is Also Concerned About Our Future Robot Overlords
Written by Josh Wolford
  • Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has become the latest tech figure to warn us that the computers are learning and they’re going to destroy us all at some point.

    “Computers are going to take over from humans, no question,” said Wozniak in an interview with the Australian Financial Review.

    “Like people including Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk have predicted, I agree that the future is scary and very bad for people. If we build these devices to take care of everything for us, eventually they’ll think faster than us and they’ll get rid of the slow humans to run companies more efficiently.”

    You might recall that others have recently spoken out about the existential threat that unchecked Artificial Intelligence poses to the human race.

    “I am in the camp that is concerned about super intelligence. First the machines will do a lot of jobs for us and not be super intelligent. That should be positive if we manage it well. A few decades after that though the intelligence is strong enough to be a concern. I agree with Elon Musk and some others on this and don’t understand why some people are not concerned,” said Bill Gates in a recent reddit AMA.

    Tesla and spaceX founder Elon Musk has been the most vocal about his AI concerns.

    See?

    “Will we be the gods? Will we be the family pets? Or will we be ants that get stepped on? I don’t know about that … But when I got that thinking in my head about if I’m going to be treated in the future as a pet to these smart machines … well I’m going to treat my own pet dog really nice,” says Wozniak.

    Be nice to the machines, guys. They might remember.

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