SpaceX CEO Elon Musk AFP FILE PHOTO
Tesla founder Elon Musk has long been wary of the rise of Artificial Inteligence (AI) and its possible threat to mankind.
With North Korea’s nuclear capabilities becoming a cause of concern internationally, the 46-year-old billionaire inventor and tech-philanthropist said that people should be more alarmed by AI safety rather than the Kim Jong-un-led nation.
If you’re not concerned about AI safety, you should be. Vastly more risk than North Korea. pic.twitter.com/2z0tiid0lc
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 12, 2017
“If you’re not concerned about AI safety, you should be. Vastly more risk than North Korea,” he wrote on Twitter, which has been shared over 12,000 times.
Musk further elaborated how the government should soon focus on monitoring AI’s booming advancement.
“Nobody likes being regulated, but everything (cars, planes, food, drugs, etc) that’s a danger to the public is regulated. AI should be too,” he said in a subsequent tweet.
Nobody likes being regulated, but everything (cars, planes, food, drugs, etc) that’s a danger to the public is regulated. AI should be too.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 12, 2017
Furthermore, Musk cited a recent AI takeover during a sports event, where OpenAI—a company specializing in promoting a friendly machined-learned bots—dominated a revered Dota 2 professional gamer at his own game.
OpenAI first ever to defeat world’s best players in competitive eSports. Vastly more complex than traditional board games like chess & Go.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 12, 2017
Meanwhile, a recent study from Oxford University seems to corroborate Musk’s predictions, claiming that AI will be better at handling all tasks than humans within the next 45 years. /ra