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Elon Musk warns environmentalist “extinctionists” could programme AI for “human extinction”
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11/1/2023
Elon Musk warns environmentalist “extinctionists” could programme AI for “human extinction”
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movement, and I'm an environmentalist, has gone too far.
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They've gone way too far.
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You know, if you start thinking that humans are bad,
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then the natural conclusion is humans should die out.
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Now, I'm headed to an AI safety, international sort of
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AI safety conference, latest night,
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leaving in about three hours.
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And I'm gonna meet with the British Prime Minister,
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a number of other people.
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So you have to say, how could AI go wrong?
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Well, if AI gets programmed by the extinctionists,
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its utility function will be the extinction of humanity.
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- Yeah, clearly.
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- Yeah.
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- Yeah, I mean, particularly if--
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- They won't even think it's bad, like that guy.
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- Right, yeah.
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If you let AI-- - It's messed up.
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- There's a lot of decisions that AI would make
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that would be very similar to eugenics.
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