We need to be super careful with AI. Potentially more dangerous than nukes.
– Elon Musk, CEO and founder of Tesla Motors and Space X, in a tweet over the weekend warning of the perils of artificial intelligence. Musk issued a similarly cautious note in a June interview with CNBC, saying we must avoid a Terminator -like outcome when developing AI.
Worth reading Superintelligence by Bostrom. We need to be super careful with AI. Potentially more dangerous than nukes.
No word yet from Musk on how we can protect our hearts from eventually being broken by Scarlett Johansson-voiced operating systems. While Musk isn t opposed to the concept of artificial intelligence (he s an investor in San Francisco AI company Vicarious and expects self-driving Tesla cars within the next year), it s nice to know he s at least aware of the dangers of technology run amok.
Er, perhaps too aware:
Hope we re not just the biological boot loader for digital superintelligence. Unfortunately, that is increasingly probable
Oh man. So we re probably just a bunch of meatbags living in a Matrix -like reality simulation? Bummer. But at least Musk s simulation is cool enough to get him into an episode of The Simpsons.
At top: Elon Musk in 2013, file photo by Nhat V. Meyer/Staff.
