Scientist Max Tegmark said there is a 50 percent chance that AI will wipe out humanity

Artificial Intelligence (AI). Nowadays this is talked about everywhere! Experts and scientists around the world are seeing AI as a future that will make the work of humans easier. But according to an expert, AI can become a big threat to human civilization. Experts believe that there is a 50 percent chance that it will wipe out humanity. Max Tegmark, a physicist and AI expert at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has made this worrying prediction.

One given to Sweden’s national broadcaster SVT Interview Max Tegmark said this in. He said that half of the species present on earth have already been exterminated by humans because we were smarter than them. Tegmark said that if humans continue to use machines smarter than themselves and machines lose control over society, then things can go wrong.

He also said that just as the world is working to reduce the risks of pandemics and nuclear war, reducing the risk of extinction from AI should also be a priority. It is noteworthy that the use of AI is increasing in every field. It is believed that in the coming time, countries around the world will increase its use in the defense sector. This can come in the form of automatic weapons and robots.

Last year, a senior US military expert warned that drones with AI-controlled weapons would soon be able to attack their targets. They will be so fast and advanced that humans will not be able to fight them. In October 2018, Zeng Yi, a senior executive of Chinese defense firm ‘Norinco’, said that ‘humans will not fight in future battlefields’ and deadly autonomous weapons will be used in war.

Experts are worried about its fatal consequences. He says this could be mankind’s ‘last century on Earth’. Professor Tegmark had also warned in 2018 that humans could one day become slaves of the intelligent machines created by them. He says that perhaps humans themselves are not smart enough to handle so much power.

Tegmark is not alone in warning of such a danger. Tesla CEO and world’s richest man Elon Musk has also been presenting his perspective on AI. In March this year, Musk had called for stopping the ‘dangerous race’ to develop AI. He feared that this was a ‘deep risk to society and humanity’, which could have ‘devastating’ effects.