Elon Musk Calls Humans ‘The First Species Capable Of Self-annihilation’
- 7 years ago
Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk continues to issue warnings about the potential destruction artificial intelligence, or AI, could wreak on mankind.
Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk continues to issue warnings about the potential destruction artificial intelligence, or AI, could wreak on mankind.
In a recent Vanity Fair profile, the SpaceX founder told the story’s writer Maureen Dowd that “we are the first species capable of self-annihilation.”
Musk has been expressing these dire tech-related thoughts for years; in 2014, he said, “I think we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. If I had to guess at what our biggest existential threat is, it’s probably that. So we need to be very careful.”
To fight against what he sees as the rising dangers, Musk has co-founded OpenAI which describes itself “a non-profit AI research company, discovering and enacting the path to safe artificial general intelligence.”
He had also invested in a company called DeepMind, now an entity owned by Google, not to make money so much as to see the speed at which AI is so rapidly progressing, notes the Daily Mail.
While Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and renowned physicist Stephen Hawking have also warned of the threat AI could pose to humans, other tech leaders like Google’s Larry Page have suggested that advanced machines could help mankind and should be allowed to do so.
Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk continues to issue warnings about the potential destruction artificial intelligence, or AI, could wreak on mankind.
In a recent Vanity Fair profile, the SpaceX founder told the story’s writer Maureen Dowd that “we are the first species capable of self-annihilation.”
Musk has been expressing these dire tech-related thoughts for years; in 2014, he said, “I think we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. If I had to guess at what our biggest existential threat is, it’s probably that. So we need to be very careful.”
To fight against what he sees as the rising dangers, Musk has co-founded OpenAI which describes itself “a non-profit AI research company, discovering and enacting the path to safe artificial general intelligence.”
He had also invested in a company called DeepMind, now an entity owned by Google, not to make money so much as to see the speed at which AI is so rapidly progressing, notes the Daily Mail.
While Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and renowned physicist Stephen Hawking have also warned of the threat AI could pose to humans, other tech leaders like Google’s Larry Page have suggested that advanced machines could help mankind and should be allowed to do so.