WATCH: Is Artificial Intelligence Mankind's Last Invention? Will Robots Eventually Destroy Humans?

Is man designing his way to destruction and programming his way to the apocalypse? Artificial intelligence (AI) was once synonymous with dystopian science-fiction novels and films. But now it is a growing fear in the nonfiction world. Intellectuals and world leaders fear that technological advancement will enable the uncontrolled rise of the robot.

The tech boom of the last century, particularly in the realm of modern warfare, is cause for concern. With the technology that human beings have developed, man could wipe himself out a thousand times over.