Stephen Hawking once warned of 3 concerns of mankind: The last one is uncontrollable!

Stephen Hawking is a famous theoretical physicist and brought many brilliant achievements to world science.

Before his death in March 2018, Professor Stephen Hawking gave many speeches predicting the future of the Earth and humans. Among them, there are 3 most notable predictions.

1. Artificial intelligence (AI) will threaten human existence

Before the rapid development of artificial intelligence, Professor Stephen Hawking once warned at the Zeitgeist conference in London (UK) in November 2017: "Computers with AI will surpass humans within 100 next year. When that happens, we're sure they'll have the same goals as us."

Professor Stephen Hawking warns that AI could replace humans in the future.

Earlier, physicist Stephen Hawking also warned of concerns about the rapid development of artificial intelligence. "If the emotional level of artificial intelligence is fully developed, it could bring an end to humanity," he said.

The famous professor said that if humans continue to give AI more rights, AI will be stronger and smarter than human computing power. Especially, when they really have emotions like humans, there will definitely be a fierce battle with AI. Because humans are limited by slow biological evolution, they will not be able to compete and be replaced.

In fact, this warning of Stephen Hawking is not without foundation. Nowadays, artificial intelligence is growing day by day. Specifically, the issue of cognitive artificial intelligence has also become a hot topic at Google recently.

In June 2022, Mr. Blake Lemoine, a computer science expert was fired by Google after publishing a chat between him and an artificial intelligence called LaMDA, and assessed this AI as thinking like kid.

While disagreeing with Blake Lemoine, Blaise Aguera y Arcas, leader of the Machine Vision team at Google, said of LaMDA, that he increasingly felt he was talking to something intelligent.

This is just one example of the rapid development of AI. Besides, AI has gradually penetrated into labor-intensive industries. In the future, what is seen in factories will no longer be employees of the assembly line, instead AI.

2. Humanity will face a serious crisis

Due to the increasing population on Earth, the resources on Earth will be consumed at a rapid rate. This leaves people facing shortages of water, food and other essential needs for survival. Eventually, the Earth will also be unable to tolerate human consumption.

Climate change is one of the threats facing the Earth.

Professor Stephen Hawking said that humans are "draining" the Earth's resources faster than it can replenish. As a result, global warming and climate change have become major threats to the stability and viability of the Earth.

Climate change threatens to kill off the Amazon rainforest, blight the polar caps and fill the atmosphere with CO2.

In a BBC documentary, Professor Stephen Hawking predicts that sooner or later humans will have to leave Earth and settle somewhere in the universe. He said that, within the next 1,000 years, humans must migrate to other planets, otherwise the Earth will be destroyed. If we do not become an interplanetary species, humans will face the danger of extinction in the future.

3. Humans may be in danger because of aliens

Physicist Stephen Hawking once warned that, if humans found aliens, they could harm us.

According to a study published in the journal Nature on June 8, 2022, astronomers have discovered a series of mysteriously repeating radio bursts (FRBs). This radio flash was emitted from a dwarf galaxy about 3 billion light-years from Earth.

This series of radio flashes was named FRB 190520B. This strange phenomenon was discovered by China's FAST radio telescope in 2019.

According to the researchers, FRB 190520B is one of three radio transmitters that are being specially monitored because they keep repeating inexplicably.

Faced with this repeated signal, there are many who think that it could be a signal that aliens use to detect interstellar civilizations and whether there really is one. alien civilization.

According to Professor Stephen Hawking, an encounter between humans and aliens could have serious consequences.

In the documentary series "Stephen Hawking's Favorite Places" in 2016, Stephen Hawking talked about Gliese, a planet that is thought to be habitable.

According to Professor Stephen Hawking: "If alien life forms evolve on Gliese 832c, we could also one day receive a signal from a planet like this. But we should be cautious about the recovery. response. Because meeting an advanced civilization can be like Native Americans encountering Columbus. This encounter doesn't have a very good outcome."

The famous physicist warned that humans should not try to discover or contact an alien civilization, because it will bring serious consequences to the people of Earth.

Professor Stephen Hawking said that trying to send messages into space to communicate with extraterrestrial intelligence is a terrible idea. Because any creature developed enough to receive this message and come to Earth can attack humans. Humans need to be careful when responding to alien signals, because they can colonize the Earth. Aliens may have evolved billions of years before humans. If that's the case then they would be very powerful and might treat us like bacteria.

Once Earth is discovered by an extraterrestrial civilization, they can directly invade the blue planet. According to physicist Stephen Hawking, alien civilizations could come to Earth from distant galaxies and would be much more powerful than Earth. The most powerful weapons on Earth may pose no threat to the alien civilization's spaceships. This can cause great harm to humans.

Currently, although humans have not found any alien civilizations, scientists have no doubt about their existence. The universe is vast, even beyond our imagination. Therefore, humans on Earth cannot be the only civilization. Therefore, Professor Stephen Hawking's prediction is not necessarily impossible.