Elon Musk on Artificial Intelligence: “I Think There Is Potentially a Dangerous Outcome There”
June 20th, 2014Via: Guardian:
Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk worries about a “Terminator” scenario arising from research into artificial intelligence.
Musk was an early investor in AI firm DeepMind, which was later acquired by Google, and in March made an investment San Francisco-based Vicarious, another company working to improve machine intelligence.
Speaking to US news channel CNBC, Musk explained that his investments were, “not from the standpoint of actually trying to make any investment return… I like to just keep an eye on what’s going on with artificial intelligence. I think there is potentially a dangerous outcome there.”
“There have been movies about this, you know, like Terminator,” Musk continued. “There are some scary outcomes. And we should try to make sure the outcomes are good, not bad.”
