Elon Musk just got biblical on the topic of artificial intelligence. In fact, he called it our biggest existential threat. This from a man working hard to make it possible for you to take a snooze behind the wheel during your morning commute.

With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon, the Tesla TSLA, -0.02% boss said Friday in an interview at MIT (see video above). In all those stories where theres the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, its like, hes sure he can control the demon.

And, as Musk pointed out, that usually doesnt work out so well.

Whether some sort of Terminator-style Judgment Day awaits us draws a varied response, depending upon whom you ask. Cambridge professor and heralded physicist Stephen Hawking, for instance, is in Musks camp, saying AI may turn out to be our best and last creation.

Then theres tech entrepreneur and venture capitalist Marc Andreesen, who tweeted that hes increasingly convinced [Musk] simply doesnt know what hes talking about and that anybody feeling freaked out about it should read this piece from the engineering geeks at IEEE Spectrum.

Andreesen joked that hell start to worry when iPhone autocorrect starts to work reliably.

As for Musk, he responded to Andreesen with: Famous last words. Actually, they would be famous if there were any humans left alive to hear them. And with that, he went even deeper with his most recent tweet.

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The Margin: Elon Musk warns of our biggest existential threat