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The Sydney Morning Herald
Technology

AI 'could spell the end of the human race': Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking has unveiled his new "life-changing" communications platform — which helps him to speak twice as quickly through a predictive text system — while at the same time expressing that the technology's extrapolation into full artificial intelligence "could spell the end of the human race".

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