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 Artificial intelligence must be carefully considered, say scientists Photo: REX By Matthew Sparkes, Deputy Head of Technology 11:46AM GMT 13 Jan 2015 Follow Dozens of the world’s top artificial intelligence experts have signed an open letter calling for researchers to take care to avoid potential “pitfalls” of the disruptive technology.
 Those who have already signed the letter include Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk, the co-founders of DeepMind, Google's director of research Peter Norvig and Harvard professor of computer science David Parkes.
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 It also warns that legislative efforts are needed before autonomous cars become a practical and ubiquitous technology: “If self-driving cars cut the roughly 40,000 annual US traffic fatalities in half, the car makers might get not 20,000 thank-you notes, but 20,000 lawsuits.
” Professor Stephen Hawking has previously said that the rise of artificial intelligence could see the human race become extinct.
 He told the BBC: ''The primitive forms of artificial intelligence we already have have proved very useful.
 But I think the development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.
'' Technology entrepreneur Elon Musk has also described the rise of AI in the past as ''our biggest existential threat''.