Robot uprising? Cambridge University team to assess threat posed
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Researchers at the UK's Cambridge University are taking
seriously the potential threats posed to the human race by the
likes of artificial intelligence and biotechnology with the
planned opening of the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk.
According to a BBC report, the team behind the Project for
Existential Risk -- comprising Cambridge philosophy professor
Huw Price, cosmology and astrophysics professor Martin Rees and
Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn -- claim it would be "dangerous"
to scoff at talk of a potential robot uprising.  Speaking to the
BBC about the project, Tallinn explained that the purpose of the
center is to put more thinking into what it calls existential
risks. "Existential risks are potential dangers that we might
face as a species, things that might kill us as a species, or at
least permanently c