If you’ve ever wanted to ask Stephen Hawking anything this is your chance.
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English cosmologist, physicist, and Director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge, Stephen William Hawking, is supposed to hold a question and answer session on Reddit. Mr. Hawking will start answering the questions one by one in the following weeks. Instead, the users can put forward as many questions that a person wants to ask. But as a result of his slower communication methods, Hawking’s AMA will work a little bit differently, and he will be taking questions for a full week, starting on Monday and ending on Tuesday, August 4. Typically, the Q&A takes place in real time, as guests try to answer the public’s questions in a single, rolling thread. Hawkins suffers from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) which has him confined to communicating with the aid of a computer amongst others, which makes a live session essentially impracticable. Hawking is also reportedly tempted to discuss his fears with artificial intelligence, which he states as, “potentially our greatest mistake in history”. The subject of AI has been one of key concern to the physicist.
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While the astrophysicist has shocked the entire world with his hypothesis that artificial intelligence might be what will bring on the end of the human race, this session is meant to identify the best ways of keeping safe from that, to find the best direction possible for science and technology to be guided towards, so that humanity can evolve in a safe environment. “Whereas the short-term impact of AI depends on who controls it, the long-term impact depends on whether it can be controlled at all”. If you’re not familiar with a Reddit AMA it’s where anyone can setup a Q&A to the entire Reddit community and they answer. This is an initiative which is a part of Nokia and Wired’s #MakeTechHuman.
