We Will Be Forced To Serve
Elon Musk has famously compared AI to ‘summoning the devil’.
Now the Tesla billionaire claims the technology could lead to the creation of immortal robot leaders from which humanity can never escape.
His comments were made in the new documentary ‘Do You Trust This Computer?’ by Chris Paine which premiered in Los Angeles last night.
The documentary explores the potential advantages and dangers of AI.
In it, an impassioned Musk talks about the nightmarish possibility that AI built by authoritarian governments could outlast individual leaders.
This, he say, will create a permanent structure of oppression.
We could create ‘an immortal dictator from which we would never escape,’ he claims.
According to Mashable, the billionaire felt so strongly about the dangers of AI that he has paid for the film to be free on YouTube this weekend.
‘It’s a very important subject,’ he told a crowd Thursday night at the film’s premiere in Los Angeles.
‘It’s going to affect our lives in ways we can’t even imagine right now.’
The warning comes shortly after Musk outlined his dire prediction for AI in a talk to employees at one of his companies, Neuralink, according to Rolling Stone.
He said there is ‘maybe a five to 10 per cent chance of success’ if we went to war with robots.
He also made a warning in July that regulation of artificial intelligence is needed because it’s a ‘fundamental risk to the existence of human civilisation.’
The billionaire said regulations will stop humanity from being outsmarted by computers, or ‘deep intelligence in the network’, that can start wars by manipulating information.
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