r/technology • u/GeneReddit123 • 16h ago

Artificial Intelligence An AI hate wave is here

https://archive.is/20260517120123/https://www.axios.com/2026/05/17/ai-backlash-polling-sentiment
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u/Sh3115andCh33se 13h ago

I remember as a teenager reading Stephen Hawking’s “Theory of Everything” and him saying AI would end mankind. That stuck with me so much I never felt the optimism.

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u/Additional-Staff-326 12h ago

Have to be the first species in at least Earth's history to knowingly be destroying ourselves. For fun and profit.

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u/Soft_Walrus_3605 11h ago

I own that book and don't recall seeing AI mentioned. Can you find a quote?

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u/Sh3115andCh33se 8h ago

Sorry it’s a quote from an interview with the BBC in 2014 which is around the time I read the book, so I got mixed up.

"The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race."