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Humanity is at risk due to scientific progress, says top cosmologist Professor Stephen Hawking. The wheelchair-bound Hawking was diagnosed with motor neurone disease aged 21 and told he had two to three years to live. Now 71, he is one of the world's leading scientists, known especially for his work on black holes and as author of the international bestseller 'A Brief History of Time'. (Reuters)
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The 74-year-old Stephen Hawking, who is a theoretical physicist, predicts that with the development of new technologies, the number of threats to the humankind will increase until some kind of global cataclysm is virtually inevitable within the next few thousand years, reports News.com.au. (Reuters)
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Among the likely scenarios Britain's Stephen Hawking singles out are nuclear war, global warming and genetically-engineered viruses. (AP)
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During a question-and-answer session at the BBC Reith Lectures, Stephen Hawking warned that in the time period before humans manage to escape to the stars, they will have to be “very careful.” (Reuters)
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Previously Prof Stephen Hawking had spoken of the dangers of the rise of artificial intelligence and has called for global agreements to prevent robots becoming uncontrollable. (AP)
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