Elon Musk is afraid Larry Page might end up destroying the world

When SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk recently said that with artificial intelligence we’re "summoning the demon", he wasn’t joking. He was genuinely concerned about artificial intelligence turning against humanity, and according to a new book by Ashlee Vance, he still is. In his new book, Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future, Bloomberg reporter Ashlee Vance recalls a dinner conversation he had with Musk, and here’s what he wrote: He opened up about the major fear keeping him up at night: namely that Google’s cofounder and CEO Larry Page might well have been building a fleet… [Continue Reading] Continue reading at 'Betanews'

[ Betanews | 2015-05-26 00:00:00 UTC ]

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