Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg speaks out over fears killer robots will wipe out humanity
Tech supremo reveals his thoughts on the risk of a Terminator-style war between humans and machines
The world is slowly waking up to the possibility that killer robots will one day wipe out humanity.
But Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has a different view about the risks and benefits of developing advanced artificial intelligence (AI).
The social media supremo has spoken out in a bid to reassure the world that AI is a force for good, rather than the technological development which will finally bring about our species' demise.
, Zuck said: "I get a little bit frustrated, I think, when people fear-monger about AI and how it could end up hurting people because I think in many real ways around diseases, around driving more safely...I mean this is going to save people's lives and push people forward.
"I heard this story recently that at this conference where someone has built a machine learning application where you can take a picture of a lesion on someone's skin, and it can detect instantly whether it's skin cancer with the accuracy of the best dermatologists and doctors in the world.
"So who doesn't want that, right? Now you're going to be able to put the power in your doctor's hand to become the best doctor in the world at that thing. Everybody will be the best doctor in the world."
Sadly, many experts disagree with him.
Physicist and noted doom-monger Professor Stephen Hawking recently said the human species could be brutally finished off by “rogue” robots which are too strong for us to defeat.
The legendary boffin is one of the most prominent critics of the unrestrained development of artificial intelligence, because he fears super-smart machines could end up turning on their human creators and sending us the way of the dodo.
Last year, the robot-rejecting physicist was one of 1,000 who signed a petition calling for an end to the "global artificial intelligence arms race".
The letter raised the horrifying prospect that racist killer bots could carry out vicious ethnic cleansing campaigns.
"Unlike nuclear weapons, [robots] require no costly or hard-to-obtain raw materials, so they will become ubiquitous and cheap for all significant military powers to mass-produce," the scientists wrote.
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