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uk Tuesday 02 January 2018 Advertisement Apple founder: 'Computers will take over from humans' Engineering genius Steve Wozniak, who co-founded Apple with Steve Jobs, has warned that artificially intelligent computers will take over from humans and that the future is “scary and very bad for people” Steve Wozniak, who set-up the company in the mid-1970s with Steve Jobs before leaving in 1987 Steve Wozniak set-up Apple in the mid-1970s with Steve Jobs before leaving in 1987 Photo: Reuters By Matthew Sparkes, Deputy Head of Technology 1:41PM GMT 23 Mar 2015 Follow The co-founder of Apple who designed the company’s first computers in the 1970s has warned that artificial intelligence will take over from humans and that the future is “scary and very bad for people”.
 "Computers are going to take over from humans, no question,” he said in an interview with the Australian Financial Review.
 He explained that strong artificial intelligence, which would recreate the power and creativity of the human mind in software, is a risky thing for researchers to strive for.
 "Like people including Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk have predicted, I agree that the future is scary and very bad for people.
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 I don't know about that… But when I got that thinking in my head about if I'm going to be treated in the future as a pet to these smart machines… well I'm going to treat my own pet dog really nice.
" 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''.
 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.
 Wozniak left Apple during the 1980s, claiming to be more interested in engineering than management.