Elon Musk Gives an AI Warning You’re Not Ready to Hear
Elon Musk says it is too late to stop AI. Even he could not halt it, the xAI founder told The Economist.
Musk spoke to The Economist's Editor-in-Chief Zanny Minton Beddoes in an interview recorded on Monday, before OpenAI disclosed that one of its frontier models went rogue.
Why Musk Thinks It's Too Late to Stop AI
This is a reversal. In March 2023, Musk signed the Future of Life Institute's open letter urging a six-month pause on AI systems more powerful than GPT-4. Months later, he launched his own AI company, xAI. Today he sees no brakes at all.
"I mean honestly, there seems to be just inexorable progress here in AI and in robots that even if I wanted to stop it, I couldn't."
The danger has not shrunk in his eyes. Musk stood by his earlier estimate of a 10% to 20% chance that killer robots would wipe out humanity.
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