Hawking Sounds Alarm Over AI's End Game

Artificial intelligence eventually could bring about mankind's demise, according to renowned physicist Stephen Hawking. "Once humans develop [full] artificial intelligence, it would take off on its own and redesign itself at an ever-increasing rate," he said. SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Hawking and futurist Ray Kurzweil "all share a vision of autonomous artificial intelligence that ... we mere humans can't keep up with," said Dan Miller, founder and lead analyst with Opus Research.