Stephen Hawking on AI
3 quotes from Stephen Hawking on the wall, 2014 to 2016, newest first. Each one is verbatim and links to where it was said. Sources include University of Cambridge, BBC News, The Independent.
- 2016
The best, or the worst thing, ever to happen to humanity
Physicist Stephen Hawking speaking at the opening of the £10million Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence in Cambridge, October 2016.
- 2014
Stephen Hawking to the BBC, 2014: full AI "could spell the end of the human race."
BBC NewsStephen Hawking warns artificial intelligence could end mankind
Unfortunately, it might also be the last
Op-ed by physicist Stephen Hawking, cowritten with Stuart Russell, Max Tegmark and Frank Wilczek, prompted by the film Transcendence and published in The Independent in May 2014.
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Quotes by others that refer to Stephen Hawking
- 2026
Risk turning science and technology into profit-driven ventures
Pope Leo voicing concern about trends in science and technology, quoted by Deborah Levine in a Chattanooga Times Free Press opinion piece on AI and climate change, September 2026, as echoing Stephen Hawking's fears.
- 2015
Our AI systems must do what we want them to do
Open letter released by the Future of Life Institute after its Puerto Rico conference in January 2015, signed by Stuart Russell, Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk and thousands of AI researchers.
- 2014
The mythology is the problem, not the algorithms
Jaron Lanier, computer scientist and author of Who Owns the Future?, talking with John Brockman for Edge in November 2014 in response to warnings about AI from Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking.