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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk wants to establish a base on Mars — but he isn’t sure its first resident will be human.<\/p>
On Friday, the mercurial billionaire responded to a question<\/a> on Twitter about whether a sophisticated artificial intelligence might touch down on the Red Planet before human colonists. Musk’s answer<\/a>: 30 percent.<\/p> 30%<\/p> — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 27, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote> Musk has a fraught relationship with the topic of AI. He’s publicly warned about the danger’s of unregulated AI<\/a>, even going so far as to found the organization Open AI<\/a> to encourage the development of responsible machine learning systems.<\/p> It’s such a signature issue for Musk that other tech personalities have weighed in on his claims — including Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, who said the notion<\/a> of killer AI was “pretty irresponsible,” and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, who quipped at an event<\/a> earlier this month that Musk was “writing a great screenplay for a Black Mirror episode.”<\/p> But Musk also believes that AI could be made to help humankind — or that the two could even merge<\/a>, ushering in a new era of evolution.<\/p> Or, as the Friday tweet shows, it seems that Musk could get on board with AI as long as it could help further his visions for the colonization of space.<\/p> READ MORE: <\/strong>Elon Musk Rates the Percent Chance That Mars’ First Resident Is an A.I.<\/a> [Inverse<\/i>]<\/p><\/div> More on Elon Musk: <\/strong>Musk: Tesla’s Fully Autonomous Capabilities “About to Accelerate”<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div> The post Elon Musk Thinks the First Mars Settler Could Be an AI<\/a> appeared first on Futurism<\/a>.<\/p> Originally posted here: The MartAIn SpaceX CEO Elon Musk wants to establish a base on Mars\u00a0\u2014 but he isn\u2019t sure its first resident will be human. On Friday, the mercurial billionaire responded to a question on Twitter about whether a sophisticated artificial intelligence might touch down on the Red Planet before human colonists. Musk\u2019s answer : 30 percent Continue reading AI Overlords<\/h2>
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