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Tech billionaire and Tesla boss Elon Musk has warned that AI is “one of the biggest threats to humanity”.
Musk, who used to have a stake in OpenAI before selling it to Microsoft in 2018, was speaking before attending the AI safety summit organised by UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and held at Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire. When asked if there was anything he wanted to talk to Sunak about, he had just one thing on his agenda.
He said: “I think AI is one of the biggest threats. For the first time, we have a situation where there’s something that is going to be far smarter than the smartest human. So, you know, we’re not stronger or faster than other creatures, but we are more intelligent, and here we are, for the first time really in human history, with something that’s going to be far more intelligent than us.
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“So, it’s not clear to me we can actually control such a thing, but I think we can aspire to guide it in a direction that’s beneficial to humanity. I do think it’s one of the existential risks that we face and it’s potentially the most pressing one, for if you look at the timescale and the rate of advancement, I think this summit is timely, and I applaud the Prime Minister for holding it.”
He was then asked if there were any particular policies he would be hoping to discuss with the PM. And while not going into specifics, he talked about how he wanted to “establish a framework” to potentially help stop AI turning into the aforementioned “big threat” to everyone.
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He said: “Once we have a framework for insight, then there’ll be some proposed policies or proposed rulemaking, and that will be done in concert with the AI companies.
“Then it’s sort of like, to go back to the sports analogy, what do all the teams in the game think would be fair rules that everyone should play by? That’s where we want to establish, but I don’t know what necessarily the fair rules are, but you’ve got to start with insight before you do oversight.”
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- Elon Musk
- Artificial Intelligence
- Rishi Sunak
- Technology
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