Elon Musk’s nightmarish warning: AI could become ‘an immortal dictator from which we would never escape’
Among his many warnings about the rise of artificial intelligence, Elon Musk has said that autonomous machines are more dangerous to the world than North Korea and could unleash “weapons of terror.” He has compared the adoption of AI to “summoning the devil.”
Hassabis, a co-founder of the mysterious London laboratory DeepMind, had come to Musk’s SpaceX rocket factory, outside Los Angeles, a few years ago. They were in the canteen, talking, as a massive rocket part traversed overhead. Musk explained that his ultimate goal at SpaceX was the most important project in the world: interplanetary colonization.
Hassabis replied that, in fact, he was working on the most important project in the world: developing artificial super-intelligence. Musk countered that this was one reason we needed to colonize Mars—so that we’ll have a bolt-hole if A.I. goes rogue and turns on humanity.
Now the billionaire inventor and Tesla chief executive — who believes artificial intelligence could help trigger the next world war — has issued another severe warning about how super-intelligent machines could come to dominate the world. Those super computers could become “an immortal dictator from which we would never escape,” Musk passionately warns in the new documentary “Do You Trust This Computer?”
We are rapidly headed towards digital super intelligence that far exceeds any human,” Musk says in the film, which premiered Thursday in Los Angeles. “I think it’s very obvious.
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Hawking also said that what A.I. can learn is infinite, and so could easily catch up with the limits of the human brain and then exceed it. While these advances could be incredibly valuable and beneficial to society, there’s a thin line between the technology helping and hindering us.
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