Rise of the machines

By Asher Moses
Updated July 18 2012 - 12:08pm, first published 12:04pm
Jaan Tallinn argues that human-driven technological progress has largely replaced evolution as the dominant force shaping our future.
Jaan Tallinn argues that human-driven technological progress has largely replaced evolution as the dominant force shaping our future.
Implications of super intelligent machines have been explored in many films like iRobot.
Implications of super intelligent machines have been explored in many films like iRobot.
Tallinn believes the rise of super intelligent machines - fictionalised in The Terminator - could lead to a "sudden global ecological catastrophe".
Tallinn believes the rise of super intelligent machines - fictionalised in The Terminator - could lead to a "sudden global ecological catastrophe".

One of the founding engineers of Skype and Kazaa is in Australia to sound a warning to the human race: fasten your seatbelts, as machines are becoming so intelligent that they could pose an existential threat.

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