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We're a weekly program. Our job is to add in-depth analysis to one question from the news.

We hope you like it. BBC World Service, this is Helena Merriman with the inquiry. This week, with growing warnings about the existential threat posed by super intelligent machines,

we ask, should we fear artificial intelligence?

On Monday, dozens of investors, scientists and entrepreneurs came together in an unprecedented move, writing an open letter in which they called for computer programmers to not only focus on making machines

more clever, but to make sure that those machines don't do more harm than good.

One of the signatories was the leading physicist Stephen Hawking who said this in a recent BBC interview.

I think the development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.

By full artificial intelligence, Professor Hawking is referring to the scenario where computers

become as intelligent as us. Once humans develop artificial intelligence, it would take off on its own and redesign itself at an ever

increasing rate. Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution

couldn't compete and would be superseded.

Elon Musk, the technology entrepreneur, described artificial intelligence as humanity's greatest threat.

More dangerous than nuclear weapons.

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