Rapper Ice-T says robots will soon take over the world and end up eating us.
The 66-year-old Original Gangster singer, born Tracy Lauren Marrow, said there was "no way" humans could stop tech now. The music legend and actor, who has starred as Odafin Tutuola in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in more than 450 episodes, said the future was not going "to be happy".
Asked about artificial intelligence tech, like chatbots and robots, and whether governments should "limit development", he said we didn’t stand a chance.
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The rapper said: “I don’t think there’s anything we can do to stop technology coming to eat us. Have you ever seen a movie about the future where it was happy?"
Experts predict that robots will overtake the number of humans by 2050, with around 10bn androids compared to 9bn humans in just 26 years’ time. A poll of 1,500 IT boffins by online privacy from Atlas VPN recently found that 49% said they reckoned robots would "destroy" mankind and end up ruling the world.
Futurologist Ian Pearson, a fellow of the British Computer Society, said recently that "strong AI" needed to be held back if we wanted to stop a robot-takeover.
He said: “If we were to develop a very strong AI, I think it would be very risky. We would be trusting in luck that the machine doesn’t want to take over the world and doesn’t want to kill us all.”
In 2023, rapper Busta Rhymes warned that tech would take over the planet, saying AI would eventually get to a place where it says "f*ck the humans".
In 2021, TV’s Adrian Chiles said he reckoned robots would eventually rip us "limb from limb".
The former One Show and Match of the Day 2 presenter said: “The fear of artificially intelligent beings turning on us - be it by taking all our jobs off us, or tearing us limb from limb, or both - is widely held. I think it will happen.”
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