a pioneer in genomics and synthetic biology

Max Tegmark: There is no question of belief ... As scientists we seek only to assess the risks and benefits of visiting an AI beyond the capabilities of the human brain. What will happen from here, for example, a few decades? Frankly, in my opinion, we do not know, really. But it is important that we thought about carefully now to limit the risks we take in creating an artificial intelligence that could turn against us as possible. On the other hand, all the positive aspects of our civilization are related to our intelligence and it is likely that the creation of a smarter AI that humans resulting in huge benefits for humanity as disease control and of poverty. I am among those who are optimistic about technology.

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FLI is composed of prestigious members such as Nobel Prize in Physics Saul Perlmutter and Frank Wilczek, the inventor of Skype Jaan Tallinn, or geneticist George Church, a pioneer in genomics and synthetic biology. © 2014 The Future of Life Institute

Futura-Sciences:  There are more than 30 years the mathematician and cosmologist Frank Tipler said that humanity was probably alone in the Milky Way . He had reached this conclusion by developing an original way the reasoning leading to the Fermi paradox. For him, an advanced technological civilization eventually be able to build what he called a Von Neumann probe. This is an AI capable of making copies of itself in traveling between the stars.