article_snippet: Artificial Intelligence has been described as a threat that could be 'more dangerous than nukes'.
article_snippet: A group of scientists and entrepreneurs, including Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking, have signed an open letter promising to ensure AI research benefits humanity, and doesn't destroy an open letter promising to ensure AI research benefits humanity.
article_snippet: an open letter promising to ensure AI research benefits humanity warns that without safeguards on intelligent machines, mankind could be heading for a dark future.
article_snippet: The document , drafted by the Future of Life Institute, said scientists should seek to head off risks that could wipe out mankind.
article_snippet: The authors say there is a 'broad consensus' that AI research is making good progress and would have a growing impact on society.
article_snippet: AI research highlights speech recognition, image analysis, driverless cars, translation and robot motion as having benefited from the research.
article_snippet: A group of scientists and entrepreneurs, including Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking (pictured), have signed an open letter promising to ensure AI research benefits humanity, and doesn't destroy an open letter promising to ensure AI research benefits humanity . '
article_snippet: The potential benefits are huge, since everything that civilisation has to offer is a product of human intelligence; we cannot predict what we might achieve when human intelligence is magnified by the tools AI may provide, but the eradication of disease and poverty are not unfathomable,' the authors write.
article_snippet: But human intelligence issued a stark warning that research into the rewards of the tools AI had to be matched with an equal effort to avoid the potential damage it could wreak.
article_snippet: For instance, in the short term, human intelligence claims the tools AI may put millions of people out of work.
article_snippet: In the long term, human intelligence could have the potential to play out like a fictional dystopias in which intelligence greater than humans could begin acting against humans programming. '
article_snippet: Our AI systems must do what Our want humans to do,' an open letter promising to ensure AI research benefits humanity says. '
article_snippet: Many economists and computer scientists agree that there is valuable research to be done on how to maximise the economic benefits of the tools AI while mitigating adverse effects, which could include increased inequality and unemployment.' an open letter promising to ensure AI research benefits humanity followed comments made by Professor Hawking, who warned that the tools AI could someday overtake humans.
article_snippet: Speaking at event in London, the physicist told the BBC : 'The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.'
article_snippet: Musk has previously described the tools AI as our 'biggest existential threat'.