The movement, known for its popularity amongst Silicon Valley tech entrepreneurs, has been gaining prominence in recent years.
Speaking to Express.co.uk Mr Wood said: “I believe there’s a 50 percent chance of artificial general intelligence, and hence the possibility of robots doing all human tasks, by the middle of the century and I’ve said there’s about a 10 percent chance we might have this by 2025.”
Artificial general intelligence is the point at which a machine can match or surpass human intellect in any given area.
Mr Wood argued there’s a mismatch between human biology, conditioned over thousands of years by evolution, and the destructive potential of the technology we are developing.
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