Stephen Hawking predicted man-made disaster in a few thousand years – Herald

19.01.2016, 13:07

Renowned theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking said that man-made catastrophe on Earth is inevitable – however, according to the scientist, happens it in a few thousand years, reports the Air Force.

«The chances of occurrence of the disaster on planet Earth in this year are quite low, but over time they are increasing, so there is no doubt that this will happen in the next few thousand or ten thousand years”, – said Hawking .

Scientists believe that the cause of the accident will be human activity: people can ruin a nuclear accident or distribution of the artificially created virus. However, according to physics, to save mankind still can – it will need to colonize other planets.

Earlier reports , that Stephen Hawking said: artificial intelligence can transcend the human within 100 s.

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