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, biotechnology and climate change. Although the project points to several areas, which is striking at artificial life, or in other words, robots.
Usually, when you play the theme that robots could be a danger to humanity, is treated as a matter of pure science fiction. Still, more and more scientists and engineers are beginning to take this issue more seriously and are realizing that indeed intelligent machines could prove dangerous for humans and believe that in the not too distant future we really to deal with this problem.
We should note that, as the technology advanced, the growing reality is closer to fiction. The project will be officially launched next year, although it appears that there is no exact date set.
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