# Full AI Could Spell the End of Humanity by Stephen Hawking > "I think the development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race." > **— Stephen Hawking**, *2014, BBC interview* ## Sources and Context - **Contemporary transcript of the BBC remarks:** [Professor Stephen Hawking warns robots will 'supersede' humans](https://www.abc.net.au/am/archive/articles/2014/12/03/s4141050.htm) — ABC reproduces Hawking's complete first-person sentence from the December 2014 BBC interview. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Collection:** [[collections/MARS|MARS]] - **Article:** [[articles/AI Escape Is the Wrong Metaphor|AI Escape Is the Wrong Metaphor]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Last Migration Will Not Be Human|The Last Migration Will Not Be Human]] - **Article:** [[articles/Christopher Nolan's Odyssey at the Threshold of Machine Succession|Christopher Nolan's Odyssey at the Threshold of Machine Succession]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/Artificial General Intelligence|Artificial General Intelligence]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Stephen Hawking|Stephen Hawking]] - [[wiki/Alignment Problem|Alignment Problem]] - [[wiki/State-Dependent Catastrophe|State-Dependent Catastrophe]] - [[wiki/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - [[wiki/AI Coordination Systems|AI Coordination Systems]] - [[wiki/Marsification|Marsification]] ## Share on Social Media ``` "I think the development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race." — Stephen Hawking, 2014, BBC interview https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-stephen-hawking-ai-spell-end-humanity ```