Apple co - founder made the comments to Australian Financial Review . The year - old admitted he had previously falsely claims robots will threaten humans in the next 30 years . But now realises predictions are coming true and it is a dangerous reality . He quipped : ' Will we be the gods ? Will we be the family pets ? ' His comments follow warnings from Elon Musk and bill Hawking . Mr Musk recently said robots could replace humans as drivers . And previous reports have found AI could cause the economy to crash .
Apple co-founder made the comments to Australian Financial Review . The 64-year-old admitted he had previously dismissed claims technology will threaten humans in the next 30 years . But now realises predictions are coming true and AI is a dangerous reality . He quipped : 'Will we be the gods ? Will we be the family pets ? ' His comments follow warnings from Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking . Mr Musk recently said robots could replace humans as drivers . And previous reports have found AI could cause the economy to crash .