Stephen Hawking was one of the brightest minds
history has ever known.
Professor hawking also had a pretty grim outlook
on what the future of the world would look
like.
He had one last dire warning for the future
of humanity that was just published in a new
collection of essays.
Basically, Stephen hawking thinks a superhuman
race is going to take over the planet, and
I’m going to tell you everything you need
to know, right now on IO.
What is good this is inform overload, I’m
charlotte dobre and hit that subscribe for
a different take on the news, and to see my
face Tuesday to Friday every week.
Also follow us on instagram, our links are
down below in the description.
Stephen hawking was and is a legend in the
scientific community for his work on black
holes and relativity.
Before he died, Stephen hawking had some pretty
worrying warnings for the future of humanity.
He warned that humans will be forced to move
to another planet in order for our species
to survive overpopulation and a draining of
resources on earth.
He believed that artificial intelligence could
overtake humans.
And lastly, hawking had one more warning that
was recently published in a collection of
essays.
In these essays, Stephen hawking said that
the future of genetic engineering would bring
a superhuman race.
In the future, hawking believed the super
wealthy will be able to edit their own dna,
and their childrens dna, changing things like
memory, resistance to diseases, cognitive
ablility and longevity.
Unfortunately, for those who are not part
of the elite, the rest of us are going to
be left behind, and maybe even phased out.
And not to make this any less scary, but hawking
thought that this is going to happen within
the 21st century.
An extract of an essay written by hawking
said, I am sure that during this century,
people will discover how to modify both intelligence
and instincts such as aggression.
Laws will probably be passed against genetic
engineering with humans.
But some people wont be able to resist the
temptation to improve human characteristics.
A DNA editing sytem was invented already.
Its called Crispr-Cas9, and it’s been around
since 2012.
It can modify harmful genes, or introduce
new ones.
The Crispr-Cas9 is already being used at Londons’s
Great Osmond Street Hospital on children with
incurable cases of leukemia.
Right now, gene editing is only used to treat
severe medical problems.
So far it has been pretty effective.
In china, they have already been experimenting
with germline gene editing, which changes
someones genes so that they don’t pass on
genetic diseases to their children.
But even though this system for genetic mutation
was created with good intentions, sooner or
later humanity will figure out how to abuse
it.
Don’t you just love humans?
We pretty much ruin everything.
Slowly but surely, gene modification will
become corrupted and used by the rich and
powerful.
Gene modification could be used to make humans
more aggressive and dangerous, which could
be used in warfare.
The armies of the future might be made up
of hostile superhumans with no sense of empathy.
It could be used to increase our lifespan,
which will make our planet even more populated.
It could make us smarter, which wouldn’t
be so bad, but realistically, most people
wouldn’t be able to afford genetic engineering.
Even though genetically modified humans does
sound pretty cool, hawking had one last dire
warning.
Once such superhumans appear, there will be
significant political problems with unimproved
humans, who wont be able to compete.
Presumably, they will die out, or become unimportant.
Instead, there will be a race of self designing
beings who are improving at an ever increasing
rate.
The concern is, these genetically modified
humans of the future will slowly start to
phase out the weak.
The sick, the disabled, the old.
And anyone who is not genetically modified
runs the risk of being shunned by society.
Stephen hawking is not the only scientist
that thinks this is possible, in fact many
think it’s within the realm of possibility.
The only way that its going to be prevented
is with strict ethics rules and laws put in
place by governments and institutions.
Gene modification is not a simple thing.
You can only edit genes if you understand
how genes work.
Which means there are only going to be a select
group of scientists capable of creating an
advanced race of superhumans.
But it just takes one of those scientists
to be evil, or kidnapped and blackmailed or
tortured by an evil organization for our society
to become an episode of Orphan Black.
The good news is, even though Stephen hawkings
theory is entirely possible most scientists
don’t believe this will happen any time
soon, likely not for a few centuries.
So maybe it’s a problem your grandchildren
or great grandchildren will have to deal with.
Anyways guys that’s all I have for you on
that story, its time to respond to some comments.
Diva Quintanilla – charlotte the potato
queen I am the coca cola quen, I don’t declare
war, I would like to have an alliance with
you.
the potato queen will take your request into
consideration.
Mystic moons – I am a notification potato.
Notice me potato queen, thanks for clicking
the bell, if you wanna be cool like mystic
moons, turn on those notifications for this
channel.
Dee sheppard – what is with people and your
belly button its only a belly button, everyone
has one.
My thoughts exactly.
Coconutboss- hello person in the comments
have a wonderful day.
Thank you I will, I hope you have a wonderful
day as well.
The video is over, and thanks for watching,
over here is a link to a playlist if you want
to keep watching IO.
And if you enjoyed your time here, smash the
thumbs up, subscribe and notification bell
and I will see you in a fturue io video.
