SpaceX, Twitter and electrical automotive maker Tesla CEO Elon Musk, arrives for a US Senate bipartisan Synthetic Intelligence (AI) Perception Discussion board on the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on September 13, 2023.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk known as for a federal division of AI in a dialog with reporters following a Capitol Hill summit that featured high-profile tech leaders, activists and researchers.
Musk arrived on the Capitol in a black Tesla on Wednesday morning to share his ideas with Congress and different tech executives, together with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Google CEO Sundar Pichai. Musk has beforehand stated that unchecked synthetic intelligence presents a dire danger to humanity and reiterated that stance in his feedback Wednesday.
“I feel this assembly may go down in historical past as necessary to the way forward for civilization,” Musk instructed reporters after the summit. AI improvement, the billionaire continued, “is doubtlessly dangerous to all people in all places.”
Musk expressed optimism concerning the assembly, saying that there appeared to be a “sturdy consensus.” Musk thought it doubtless that federal AI division may function equally to the Federal Aviation Administration or the Securities and Alternate Fee, including that these within the area needed to be “proactive whereas reactive.”
Musk in July launched his personal AI agency, xAI. There was little information from throughout the firm, however Musk has made repeated public statements that AI improvement will need to have sturdy guardrails.