{"id":400035,"date":"2020-07-24T13:52:57","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T17:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/uncategorized\/elon-musk-if-you-dont-think-ai-could-outsmart-you-youre-an-idiot.php"},"modified":"2020-07-24T13:52:57","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T17:52:57","slug":"elon-musk-if-you-dont-think-ai-could-outsmart-you-youre-an-idiot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurism\/elon-musk-if-you-dont-think-ai-could-outsmart-you-youre-an-idiot.php","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk: If You Don\u2019t Think AI Could Outsmart You, You\u2019re an Idiot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-assets.futurism.com\/2020\/07\/elon-musk-ai-outsmart-idiot-300x158.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"Elon Musk is once again warning about the perils of unregulated AI, saying that people who think AI couldn't fool them are fooling themselves.\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div><h2>Big Brain<\/h2><p>Elon Musk, who long been notorious for warning of the dangers of artificial intelligence, has a message to the doubters among us: They&rsquo;re&nbsp;not as clever as they think.<\/p><p>In the past, Musk has gone as far as to say that artificial intelligence is even more dangerous than nuclear war, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/elon-musk-smart-people-doubt-ai-dumber-than-they-think-2020-7\">Business Insider <\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/elon-musk-smart-people-doubt-ai-dumber-than-they-think-2020-7\">reports<\/a>. One of his concerns is that AI will replace human workers. But he also frets that a Skynet-like AI will decide it <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/elon-musk-communicate-slowly-future-ai\">no longer needs humans<\/a> at all.<\/p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been banging this AI drum for a decade,&rdquo; Musk told <em>Business Insider<\/em>.<\/p><h2>Cognitive Trap<\/h2><p>Musk&rsquo;s latest warning is that smart people who assume they could never be fooled by a machine are in effect lowering their guard to any <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/elon-musk-ai-manipulate-social-media\">AI trickery<\/a> coming their way.<\/p><p>&ldquo;We should be concerned about where AI is going,&rdquo; Musk told <em>Business Insider<\/em>. &ldquo;The people I see being the most wrong about AI are the ones who are very smart, because they can&rsquo;t imagine that a computer could be way smarter than them. That&rsquo;s the flaw in their logic. They&rsquo;re just way dumber than they think they are.&rdquo;<\/p><h2>Alarm Bells<\/h2><p>Musk&rsquo;s fears aren&rsquo;t always shared among his peers, especially since he sometimes makes them <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2017\/07\/17\/537686649\/elon-musk-warns-governors-artificial-intelligence-poses-existential-risk\">alongside unsupported claims<\/a> to have seen dangerous, secret AI research that others don&rsquo;t know about.<\/p><p>But the severity of his warnings aside, Musk&rsquo;s solution seems reasonable: Greater regulation and oversight for AI development would be an important safeguard against abusive or irresponsible technology.<\/p><p><strong>READ MORE: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/elon-musk-smart-people-doubt-ai-dumber-than-they-think-2020-7\">Elon Musk said people who don&rsquo;t think AI could be smarter than them are &lsquo;way dumber than they think they are&rsquo;<\/a> [<em>Business Insider<\/em>]<\/p><p><strong>More on Elon Musk:<\/strong> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/reddit-cofounder-mocks-elon-musks-ai-warnings\">Reddit Co-founder Mocks Elon Musk&rsquo;s Warnings About AI<\/a><\/em><\/p><p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/elon-musk-ai-outsmart-idiot\">Elon Musk: If You Don&rsquo;t Think AI Could Outsmart You, You&rsquo;re an Idiot<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\">Futurism<\/a>.<\/p><p>Read more here:<br><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/elon-musk-ai-outsmart-idiot\" title=\"Elon Musk: If You Don&rsquo;t Think AI Could Outsmart You, You&rsquo;re an Idiot\">Elon Musk: If You Don&rsquo;t Think AI Could Outsmart You, You&rsquo;re an Idiot<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Big Brain Elon Musk, who long been notorious for warning of the dangers of artificial intelligence, has a message to the doubters among us: They\u2019re\u00a0not as clever as they think. In the past, Musk has gone as far as to say that artificial intelligence is even more dangerous than nuclear war, Business Insider reports  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurism\/elon-musk-if-you-dont-think-ai-could-outsmart-you-youre-an-idiot.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-400035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400035"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}