‘AI will never replace humans,’ top European future researcher says

Amid widespread warnings of the threats posed by artificial intelligence, futurist Horst Opaschowski says he does not see AI as a clear and definite threat to humanity, even if this technology does pose risks. “AI will never replace humans, at best it will only be able to copy them slightly,” the Germany-based future researcher said in an interview with the Catholic News Agency KNA. Recent warnings about the rise of AI say the technology could see widespread job losses or worse, should it “get smarter than people,” as the technology’s “godfather” Geoffrey Hinton put it when he quit his job at …

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