Elon Musk, chief government officer of Tesla Inc., on the AI Security Summit 2023 at Bletchley Park in Bletchley, UK, on Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023.
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LONDON — Elon Musk thinks that synthetic intelligence may finally put everybody out of a job.
The billionaire expertise chief, who owns Tesla, SpaceX, X, the corporate previously generally known as Twitter, and the newly fashioned AI startup xAI, stated late Thursday that AI could have the potential to turn out to be the “most disruptive pressure in historical past.”
“We could have one thing that’s, for the primary time smarter than the neatest human,” Musk stated at an occasion at Lancaster Home, an official U.Okay. authorities residence.
“It is laborious to say precisely what that second is, however there’ll come some extent the place no job is required,” Musk continued, talking alongside British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. “You may have a job in case you needed to have a job for private satisfaction. However the AI would have the ability to do all the things.”
“I do not know if that makes individuals snug or uncomfortable,” Musk joked, to which the viewers laughed.
“If you want for a magic genie, that offers you any want you need, and there is no restrict. You do not have these three want limits nonsense, it is each good and unhealthy. One of many challenges sooner or later will likely be how do we discover that means in life.”
Musk has on a number of events warned of the threats that AI poses to humanity, having as soon as stated it might be extra harmful than nuclear weapons. He was one in every of quite a few tech leaders who urged for a pause to improvement of AI extra superior than OpenAI’s GPT-4 software program in a widely-cited open letter launched earlier this 12 months.
Different tech leaders disagree with that view, together with Palantir’s boss Alex Karp. Talking to BBC Radio in June, Karp stated he’s of the view that “most of the individuals asking for a pause, are asking for a pause as a result of they don’t have any product.”
Musk’s feedback Thursday observe the conclusion to a landmark summit in Bletchley Park, England, the place world leaders agreed to a world communique on AI that noticed them discover frequent floor on the dangers the expertise poses to humanity.
Technologists and political leaders used the summit to warn of the existential threats that AI poses, specializing in a number of the potential doomsday situations that might be fashioned with the invention of a hypothetical superintelligence.
The summit noticed the U.S. and China, two international locations clashing essentially the most tensely over expertise, agree to seek out international consensus on tips on how to deal with a number of the most complicated questions round AI, together with tips on how to develop it safely and regulate it.
