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There's not much to Hawking's claim. For a far better discussion based on deep knowledge, about the dangers of an AI , here's this reddit thread started by an

• mej10 12y ago
  I don't know why you would place any more weight on that random person's opinion. Most of the things he/she says are really naive.
• cousin_it 12y ago
  As far as I can tell, that guy is not an AI researcher, and his claims are very misinformed. Many knowledgeable people in the industry take existential risk from AI seriously, e.g. Google's acquisition of DeepMind was conditional on Google creating an AI ethics board specifically against such risks. For a more thorough treatment of the topic, see Bostrom's book "Superintelligence: paths, dangers, strategies". (Disclaimer: I'm not a full-time AI researcher, but I've done a fair bit of math work for MIRI, so I might be biased toward the Yudkowsky point of view.)