The world mourns the death of scientist Stephen Hawking, who has always had reflections on the future of humanity, has warned of the dangerous path that has taken and that will end the planet, and on artificial intelligence. Before dying, he left one last warning: look for a new planet.
In his years on earth, the 76-year-old cosmologist offered many ideas about the challenges that await us. Their understanding of them will be lacking in the future.
Many of his predictions were truly terrifying. In 2016 he warned at a conference in Lisbon of the need to maintain control of computers and Artificial Intelligence.
Although he recognized the ability of technology to alleviate poverty and disease, he pointed out the worrying potential of computers to become tools of oppression, violence and economic chaos.
According to CNBC, Hawking said:
"Computers in theory can emulate human intelligence and surpass it. The success in the creation of Artificial Intelligence could be the greatest event of our civilization. Or the worst. We just do not know. So we can not know if it will be of great help or if we will be ignored or even destroyed by it. "
Although in 2016 he said that humans may have left 1,000 years on earth, this calculation was drastically recalled to 100 years in 2017, taking into account factors such as climate change, asteroids, population growth and nuclear wars. and epidemics.
A great critic of policies such as that of Donald Trump, who do not believe in climate change, fiercely condemned his decision to get out of the Paris agreement.
In May 2017, he warned at a meeting of the Royal Society in London of the need for humans to leave the earth in the next century, thus becoming a multiplanetary species.
According to Newsweek, the academic explained that this extreme migration could preserve the human species, even if the earth is destroyed by a disaster:
"I firmly believe that we should start looking for alternate planets to inhabit. There is not enough space on earth and we need to overcome the technological limitations that prevent us from living in other parts of the universe. "
In November 2017, Hawking gave predictions about the end of the world, discussing population growth and electricity consumption. According to GeekWire, he warned of the consequences of the population doubling in 40 years:
"The exponential growth can not continue until the next millennium. By the year 2600, the world population will be so much that it will be shoulder to shoulder and the consumption of electricity will have the earth red hot. "