TagStephen Hawking
Advice to Physicists: “Shut Up and Do Physics”
Well-known public intellectuals sometimes stray outside their silos of expertise, showing questionable judgment about, for example, AIStephen Hawking was a genius in theoretical physics but he did not know much about computers and his fears of an AI takeover were unfounded.
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Stephen Hawking and the AI Apocalypse
Can doomsday headlines, chasing fame, stand in for deep knowledge of a subject?
AI machines taking over the world?
It’s a cool apocalypse but does that make it more likely?Doomsday thinking is easily mocked. The character marching hairy and barefoot under his “End Is Near” sign, is a staple of cartoons in middlebrow mags. Yet when media magnets market doomsday scenarios—like the late Stephen Hawking (“worst event in the history of our civilization”) and Elon Musk (“an immortal dictator from which we would never escape”) — it’s a Cool apocalypse.
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