Raw LLM Responses

Hi Professor Hawking, I am a student of Computer Science, with my main interest being AI, specifically General AI. Now to the questions: * How would you personally test if AI has reached the level of humans? * Must self-improving General AI have access to its source code? If it does have access to its source code, can self-improving General AI really have effective safeguards and what would they be? If it has access to its source code, could it simply change any safeguards we have in place? Could it also change its goal? * Should any AI have self-preservation coded in it? If self-improving AI reaches Artificial General Intelligence or Artificial Super Intelligence, could it become self-aware and by that strive for self-preservation even without any coding for it on the part from humans? * Do you think a machine can truly be conscious? * Let's say Artificial Super Intelligence is developed. If turning off the ASI is the last safeguard, would it view humans as a threat to it and therefore actively seek to eliminate them? Let's say the goal of this ASI is to help humanity. If it sees them as a threat would this cause a dangerous conflict, and how to avoid it? * Finally, what are 3 questions you would ask Artificial Super Intelligence?