Elon Musk, the visionary entrepreneur, fired a warning shot across the bow of the nation's governors recently regarding the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) which he feels may be the greatest existential threat to human civilization, far eclipsing global warming or thermonuclear war. In that, he is joined by Stephen Hawking and other scientists who feel that the quest for singularity and AI self-awareness is dangerous.
Singularity is the point at which artificial intelligence will meet and then exceed human capacity.
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