Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk has once again taken to a public forum to warn everyone that they shouldnt sleep on recent developments in the artificial intelligence field. In short, Musk says that the chance of something seriously dangerous happening is likely in five years or so, and a near certainty within a decade.

Musk posted his warning on science and futurology site edge.org, as a reply to an article titled The Myth of AI. At some point, Musk deleted his comment but quick redditors over at the futurology subreddit caught it.

Heres what he had to say:

The pace of progress in artificial intelligence (Im not referring to narrow AI) is incredibly fast. Unless you have direct exposure to groups like Deepmind, you have no idea how fast-it is growing at a pace close to exponential. The risk of something seriously dangerous happening is in the five year timeframe. 10 years at most. This is not a case of crying wolf about something I dont understand.

I am not alone in thinking we should be worried. The leading AI companies have taken great steps to ensure safety. They recognize the danger, but believe that they can shape and control the digital superintelligences and prevent bad ones from escaping into the Internet. That remains to be seen

This is by no means Musks first warning of the type.

In August, he tweeted that AI was potentially more dangerous than nukes.

A few months ago he vocalized his concerns regarding a possible Skynet scenario. In fact, he pretty much admitted to investing in an AI company so that he could keep an eye on them.

And barely three weeks ago, speaking at MITs Aeronautics and Astronautics departments Centennial Symposium, Musk compared harnessing AI to controlling a demon.

I think we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. If I were to guess like what our biggest existential threat is, its probably that. So we need to be very careful with the artificial intelligence.

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Elon Musk Once Again Warns of the Looming Robot Apocalypse