This is a
question many have been made, mainly fans of science fiction and
especially those who have seen movies like Terminator.
The philosophy professor Huw Price, cosmologist and astrophysicist Martin Rees and one of the first developers of Skype, Jaan Tallinn, the three have founded the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk
, a project to study the risks Mankind may have for certain potential
threats as artificial life, nanotechnology,...