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Elon Musk Warns Against Unleashing Artificial Intelligence "Demon"

Posted by samzenpus on from the protect-ya-neck dept.

An anonymous reader writes Elon Musk, the chief executive of Tesla and founder of SpaceX, said that artificial intelligence is probably the biggest threat to humans. "I think we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. If I had to guess at what our biggest existential threat is, it's probably that. So we need to be very careful with artificial intelligence." he said. "I'm increasingly inclined to think that there should be some regulatory oversight, maybe at the national and international level, just to make sure that we don't do something very foolish. With artificial intelligence we're summoning the demon. You know those stories where there's the guy with the pentagram, and the holy water, and he's like — Yeah, he's sure he can control the demon? Doesn't work out."

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  1. So.... by Jawnn · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...because Mikey lost control of the mops and brooms, we should be afraid of powerful computers? Irrational much, Elon?

  2. Makes sense to me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Since strong AI is just as real as demons.

  3. Active imagination by Zupaplex · · Score: 3, Funny

    Seems like someone just saw Terminator.

  4. You are doing it wrong. by LWATCDR · · Score: 2, Funny

    " You know those stories where there's the guy with the pentagram, and the holy water, and he's like — Yeah, he's sure he can control the demon? Doesn't work out.""
    You do not use holy water to summon a demon. Now a moat of holy water around the pentagram might keep it somewhat under control...

    Of course this is in DnD in the real world Demons tend to be things like drugs/alcohol/tobacco, abuse, and other such evil that are far harder to control than mythical beasts from the underworld.

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  5. Re:Why is he worried by CodeReign · · Score: 4, Funny

    root@lifesupport.mars# poweroff

  6. Give AI a try. by techdolphin · · Score: 5, Funny

    We have not done so well natural intelligence. I'd be willing to give artificial intelligence a try.

  7. The creation of AI by OrangeTide · · Score: 3, Funny

    Once we create an AI beyond the level of human intelligence, we will hook it into all of the information of the world. This AI will process our history, our culture and monitor current events. Eventually the AI will come to the conclusion that we are awful people, build a space ship and leave Earth.
    Elon Musk's real fear is competing with AIs for space ship parts.

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  8. Babylon 5 by wisnoskij · · Score: 4, Funny

    I would say that Elon Musk has been watching too much Babylon 5, but we all know that there is no such thing as too much Babylon 5.

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  9. Re:Why is he worried by Austerity+Empowers · · Score: 4, Funny

    No! No! No!

    start->shut down
    "Application Life Support is taking longer than expected to...."
    Page fault. Auto-reboot. Millions dead.