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Professor Stephen Hawking, one of the world's most renowned scientists, has that robots and machines with artificial intelligence could one day the end of us all. Professor Hawking recently the BBC in an interview that: "The development of full artificial intelligence (AI) could the end of the human race." The famous cosmologist his warning in response to a question about an update to the app he to allow him to communicate. Hawking from motor neuron disease (also known as ALS) and a special voice synthesizer to . The update will be able to predict words he might want to use on his previous communication.

Hawking said that AI has many benefits to many people. He said it is still in its early stages of development, but when it more sophisticated, it could a threat to our existence. He said: "It would off on its own, and re-design itself at an ever increasing rate. Humans, who are by slow biological evolution, couldn't , and would be superseded." This is not the first time he has such a warning. He gave a more chilling warning in April 2014, : "One can such technology outsmarting financial markets, out-inventing human researchers, out-manipulating human leaders, and developing weapons we cannot even ."

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