Do You Think Artificial Intelligence is Threat to Humankind? Will Robot Kill Us?

I think robot can threat human beings, but not now. Just like the scientific novels and movies shows, when robots get their own thoughts, intelligence may become a treat to human. Because they have much more physical advantages than human and of course, intelligence advantage. However, it should be hundreds years later if the intelligence can think themselves. And when that time comes, maybe human beings is already much more developed and have solutions to avoid be overwhelmed by robots.

Yes, I have seen those films and I like them, but I don't think that the threat is imminent. It is true that artificial intelligence is gaining power day by day and that is not very far away that their smartness will surpass human intellect. Sometimes I also think like this that what will happen I machines will overtake us and start disturbing our society. It is like a horrific dream, but it has some base and is possible if technology keeps developing like this. The danger is impending and scientist must do something in order to prevent this to occur. But this is those who are good scientist with good ethics? What will happen if this technology come into existence and in the control of some bad scientists? You are correct that this question is still unanswered, but it needs to be answered very soon for the sake of humankind.

Dear friend, There few movies I had seen in which that clearly shows the advantages and disadvantages of this artificial intelligence. Among them one is "Robot" recently launched. Moreover if that is not handled or controlled properly by humans the effect is definitely to be worse. We may become slaves or eliminated if those artificial intelligence generated takes the world.

Always a very interesting topic! I first go back to Moore's Law... which was originally said back in the late 50s, that computer power will constantly double, every 18 months... and it has been staying true! More recently, one scientist claimed that in only 5-7 years, the intelligence power of computers will be equal to that of humans, and it would only take another 18 months for it to be double that of human, then another 18 months before it would quadruple... and easily overpower humans, alltogether... of course, that was said back in the 70s, and never quite happened... We seem to be misinterpreting the power of our own minds... which is far greater then we originally thought... However, a common idea to the amount of "ram" that we have, how fast we can process information, would be around 1 petabyte... which is 1000 terabytes. With Moore's law continuing the way it has for the past 50 years, this time will be coming up around 2015... Verner Vinge, one of the biggest people in the direction of the "technological singularity" says that computers will surpass us sometime between 2005 and 2030, but absolutely not before or after that. I've also heard ideas from others that computers will match us completely by 2040 or so... others that say it would happen around 2100... others that say it would require quantum computing, which may not end up being possible... making an end to the technological revolution we've been having. But, I have another idea. What if technology not only stops, but it taken away? Seriously? Which would be a worse thing to have? Building up to a point where computers suddenly have control over us, or building up to a point where everything around us needs computers, and we suddenly loose them? What if it somehow became impossible to use electricity on earth, for some reason, and we lost all computers? So many things that we have nowadays suddenly wouldn't work, from your computer and lights, to your fridge and your heaters, to your cars, buses, and airplanes, to your cell phones and watches and TVs... everything would suddenly be out, and the majority of 1st world countries has no idea how to grow their own plants, or make their own food, or get from place to place without a vehicle... Which is worse? Gaining too much, or loosing it all?

It looks scary, doesn't it? If and when it happens, there is only someone to blame. He i MAN.

Yes i think that may happen someday. Artificial Intelligence is progressing at a very high speed and a day will come when robots will have the same intelligence level as that of we humans. With extra abilities that they will possess, they could be a big threat to mankind. They can make us slave or whatever. We are calling our own end by doing this and if anything goes wrong in this process, be ready to suffer.

To be honest it is way to early for artificial intelligence to be a threat to humankind. The only way that it could be a threat would be if we made robots that could reproduce (aka build some more), have a desire to hurt the human race (now why would we make that??) and mostly an amazing ability to learn (super hard to make). Overall I feel that we can maybe talk about this threat in 100 years, but we have to wait and see until then because right now the technology is just not there. Also the robots would have to have a way to constantly power themselves, not to mention they would need virtual eyesight with object recognition which is super complicated. Also an extremely powerfull computer would have to be in them which cannot happen yet.