Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., on the AI Safety Summit 2023 at Bletchley Park in Bletchley, UK, on Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023.
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LONDON — Elon Musk thinks that artificial intelligence could eventually put everyone out of a job.
The billionaire technology leader, who owns Tesla, SpaceX, X, the corporate formerly referred to as Twitter, and the newly formed AI startup xAI, said late Thursday that AI will have the potential to turn out to be the “most disruptive force in history.”
“We will have something that is, for the primary time smarter than the neatest human,” Musk said at an event at Lancaster House, an official U.K. government residence.
“It’s hard to say exactly what that moment is, but there will come a degree where no job is needed,” Musk continued, speaking alongside British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. “You may have a job if you happen to desired to have a job for private satisfaction. However the AI would find a way to do every little thing.”
“I do not know if that makes people comfortable or uncomfortable,” Musk joked, to which the audience laughed.
“For those who wish for a magic genie, that offers you any wish you would like, and there is no limit. You do not have those three wish limits nonsense, it’s each good and bad. One in every of the challenges in the long run will be how can we find meaning in life.”
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Musk has on multiple occasions warned of the threats that AI poses to humanity, having once said it might be more dangerous than nuclear weapons. He was one in all quite a few tech leaders who urged for a pause to development of AI more advanced than OpenAI’s GPT-4 software in a widely-cited open letter released earlier this 12 months.
Other tech leaders disagree with that view, including Palantir’s boss Alex Karp. Chatting with BBC Radio in June, Karp said he is of the view that “most of the people asking for a pause, are asking for a pause because they’ve no product.”
Musk’s comments Thursday follow the conclusion to a landmark summit in Bletchley Park, England, where world leaders agreed to a worldwide communique on AI that saw them find common ground on the risks the technology 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 possible doomsday scenarios that might be formed with the invention of a hypothetical superintelligence.
The summit saw the U.S. and China, two countries clashing probably the most tensely over technology, agree to seek out global consensus on tackle a number of the most complex questions around AI, including develop it safely and regulate it.
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