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Elon Musk Favors Humans Over Machines, and That’s Good News

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Elon Musk Favors Humans Over Machines, and That’s Good News

By Movieguide® Contributor

Elon Musk is concerned about the power of AI.

The Tesla mogul spoke with Jordan Peterson about his part in creating the AI powerhouse OpenAI and his current concerns with the technology.

“I was one of the principal co-founders of Open AI. In fact, I named it,” Musk said.

The entrepreneur started the company with his friend Larry Page but grew “increasingly concerned that Larry was not sufficiently concerned with AI safety.”

“At one point he did call me a ‘specieist,’ I guess correctly labelled.” Musk explained. “I’m a specieist in favor of humans instead of machines.”

He fears that AI will one day take over, and humans will lose their working value because AI can do a “better” job. Musk’s former partner was okay with that.

“Larry’s view is — if I’m not misspeaking — is that ultimately we will all upload our minds to the computer, and everyone will just be robots,” Musk explained.

“There’s not much difference between that and the death of humanity,” Peterson responded.

This isn’t the first time Musk has raised concerns over the use of Artificial Intelligence. Movieguide® previously reported:

Musk has previously warned about the dangers of the “unrestricted development” of AI and the detrimental effects it could have on humanity.

“One of the biggest risks to the future of civilization is AI. But AI is both positive or negative—it has great promise, great capability but also, with that comes great danger,” Musk explained.

“I think we need to regulate AI safety, frankly,” he said. “Think of any technology which is potentially a risk to people, like if it’s aircraft or cars or medicine, we have regulatory bodies that oversee the public safety of cars and planes and medicine.”

“I think we should have a similar set of regulatory oversight for artificial intelligence, because I think it is actually a bigger risk to society,” Musk concluded.

Musk spoke about why it’s problematic for AI to take over human jobs last year.

“The question will really be one of meaning  – if the computer and robots can do everything better than you, does your life have meaning?” he said.  “I do think there’s perhaps still a role for humans in this – in that we may give AI meaning.”

Musk launched his own AI company, xAI, last November.

Its goal is “to understand the true nature of the universe,” and it rivals “industry leaders like DeepMind and OpenAI and is working on an alternative to ChatGPT (jokingly dubbed ‘TruthGPT’),” Forbes reported.


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