Centre will examine the possibility that there might be a Pandoras box' moment with technology The founders say technologies already have the 'potential to threaten our own existence' <\/p>\n
By Amanda Williams <\/p>\n
PUBLISHED: 08:00 EST, 25 November 2012 | UPDATED: 03:03 EST, 26 November 2012 <\/p>\n
A centre for 'terminator studies', where leading academics will study the threat that robots pose to humanity, will open at Cambridge University <\/p>\n
A centre for 'terminator studies', where leading academics will study the threat that robots pose to humanity, is set to open at Cambridge University.<\/p>\n
Its purpose will be to study the four greatest threats to the human species - artificial intelligence, climate change, nuclear war and rogue biotechnology.<\/p>\n
The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER) will be co-launched by Lord Rees, the astronomer royal and one of the world's top cosmologists.<\/p>\n
Rees's 2003 book Our Final Century had warned that the destructiveness of humanity meant that the species could wipe itself out by 2100.<\/p>\n
The idea that machines might one day take over humanity has featured in many science fiction books and films, including the Terminator, in which Arnold Schwarzenegger stars as a homicidal robot.<\/p>\n
In 1965, Irving John Jack Good and wrote a paper for New Scientist called Speculations concerning the first ultra-intelligent machine.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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