Stephen Hawking vs Yuval Harari

Posted 8th September 2014 to Afternoons at Radio New Zealand

In regard to the Interview with Dr Yuval Harari about his book a brief History of Mankind

I wonder what Dr Harari would say about Stephen Hawking saying That the way things are going in the 21st Century Conflicts
We might have to reconsider describing our species as “Intelligent” especially if you throw in Climate Change to the mix..
We seen positively Suicidal..

The Other Thing Stephen Hawking said was that we should fear artificial Intelligence as it will most probably wipe us out
(perhaps when it figures how dangerous we are)

Personally I think that as the brain of the stupidest Human has more computing power than all the World’s computers together
It will be Re engineering Human Biology that will be the easiest way of creating super intelligence and most a race of Supermen

Though I have to say we probably have enough Geniuses in the World today to be getting on with, It’s the Rich Idiots that seem to be in charge of Society that are a
Rapidly becoming Logistical Problem!