Elon Musk believes that highly likely that artificial intelligence (AI) could be the end of humanity. The Tesla founder says he is concerned that a handful of major companies will end up in control of AI systems giving them “extreme” levels of power.
Musk currently owns two companies working on AI technology: Neuralink and OpenAI. Neuralink is working on ways to implant technology into human brains in order to create mind-computer interfaces while OpenAI is a nonprofit seeking to minimize the dangers that AI technology poses on humans as a species.
It is the latter company that, Musk hopes, will prevent the world from becoming a real-life “Terminator” film. However, being a non-profit, OpenAI has the cards stacked against it as Musk himself lays down the odds of his mission to make AI safe.
“Maybe there’s a five to 10 percent chance of success,” he said after showing his Neuralink staff a documentary on AI. He has also called for the companies working on the technology to slow down to ensure they don’t unintentionally build something unsafe.
“Between Facebook, Google and Amazon – and arguably Apple, but they seem to care about privacy – they have more information about you than you can remember,” told Rolling Stone. “There’s a lot of risk in concentration of power. So if AGI (artificial general intelligence) represents an extreme level of power, should that be controlled by a few people at Google with no oversight?”
It is for this reason that he has also invested in Google’s DeepMind. Musk…
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