“ Take gorillas for example – the reason they are going extinct is not because humans are actively hostile towards them, but because we control the environments in ways that suit us, but are detrimental to their survival. ”

“Think how it might be to compete for resources with the dominant species,” says Price. “Take gorillas for example – the reason they are going extinct is not because humans are actively hostile towards them, but because we control the environments in ways that suit us, but are detrimental to their survival.”

« The seriousness of these risks is difficult to assess, but that in itself seems a cause for concern, given how much is at stake.»

« Our technological progress has by and large replaced evolution as the dominant, future-shaping

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By METRO REPORTER - 26 November, 2012 inShare 2 'Terminator centre' at Cambridge University to save us all from robots The Terminator warned: 'I'll be back!' But researchers at Cambridge University plan to be ready for him, as it opens a centre for 'Terminator studies' to combat the threats to humanity by killer robots. Read more: http://www.metro.co.uk/news/918974-terminator-centre-at-cambridge-university-to-save-us-all-from-robots#ixzz2DkUNeyOW

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Spanner isn’t quite Skynet — the self-aware artificial intelligence system in the Terminator movies — but it does show how far we’ve come at building connected systems and databases. “When there are outages, things just sort of flip — client machines access other servers in the system,” Google software engineer Andrew Fikes told Wired. “It’s a much easier service story. … The system responds — and not a human.”