>> ANA: Stephen Hawking is very much concerned about
artificial intelligence, even though a very basic form of artificial intelligence
allows him to communicate with us.
Now, recently he was asked about the technology that he uses
and whether or not he was excited for it to be improved upon in the future.
Here's what he had to say.
Damn.
And he also continued to say --.
>> CENK: They're coming!
That's what he said, they're coming.
>> ANA: He continued to say --
>> CENK: I have redesigned myself.
I will now eliminate you.
You are no longer necessary for the planet.
>> ANA: But think about that for a second.
If we create artificial intelligence that becomes more intelligent than us
and then takes over the world.
>> CENK: Damn.
So now Stephen Hawking has said in the past that you don't want to meet aliens either.
And his analogy for that was powerful.
It stuck with me.
It was from a while back.
He said, imagine we go on a planet and we meet creatures that
to us have the consciousness of an ant.
What would we do with them?
Would we be like, oh, hello, ants, how are you?
You make sure you're okay, right?
If they had to be so much smarter to be able to get here, right.
Smarter is such a simplistic way of putting it, but you see what I'm saying.
So when they get here, a bunch of ants, that's us.
And they think, well, what difference does it make?
They're barely sanctioned, right?
>> ANA: I don't like any of this stuff.
I don't like the artificial intelligence.
I think it's unnecessary.
I don't like the aliens.
I don't want to meet them.
I want things to stay the same or maybe improve when it comes
to climate and stuff like that.
And then let's move on with our lives.
>> CENK: Ana has a lifelong policy of not wanting to meet aliens.
>> ANA: Yeah.
>> CENK: Sorry, not interested, okay?
If you're an alien trying to pick her up at a bar, not gonna work.
He's not alone too.
Elon Musk.
>> ANA: Elon Musk agrees that it would be disastrous if we developed
artificial intelligence that, you know, is basically smarter than us.
By the way, more commentary from Stephen Hawking that I thought was good.
>> CENK: So let's think that through for a second.
If they'll be able to modify themselves and they get increment --
maybe adrenaline, maybe exponentially smarter, they don't need us at all.
And they can do it so much quicker, because it's just a matter of
very small period of time.
Whereas us evolving takes forever.
Although, to be fair to us, we soon also will have superbabies,
because know some of our genes can be modified.
And they might be able to be modified in the womb.
We covered those stories as well.
And the superbabies will definitely replace us.
The artificial intelligence is a maybe.
The superbabies are gonna be like, what do we have these idiots running around for?
So there's a lot of things in the future that might be bright
and then maybe not so good.
We've got to be a little bit careful.
But I know it sounds like a science fiction movie.
But there's some very smart people who believe that we ought to be
a little more careful.
And by the way, the flip side of all of this is you can't stop science anyway.
You're not gonna stop technology.
You're not gonna stop advancement.
So the hand writing's on the wall anyway.
Even if you don't do it and everybody listens to Stephen Hawking and the UK or America or whatever,
it could be some guy in Korea going, get the hell out of here, man.
Of course I'm gonna go forward.
Somebody's gonna go forward until we all stop.
