Elon Musk has branded artificial intelligencea fundamental existential risk for human civilisation. <\/p>\n
He says we mustnt wait for a disaster to happen before deciding to regulate it, and that AI is, in his eyes, the scariest problem we now face. <\/p>\n
He also wants the companies working on AI to slow down to ensure they dont unintentionally build something unsafe. <\/p>\n
The CEO of Tesla and SpaceX was speaking on-stage at the National Governors Association at the weekend. <\/p>\n
I have exposure to the most cutting-edge AI and I think people should be really concerned about it, he said. I keep sounding the alarm bell but until people see robots going down the street killing people, they dont know how to react because it seems so ethereal. <\/p>\n
I think we should be really concerned about AI and I think we should AIs a rare case where I think we need to be proactive in regulation instead of reactive. Because I think by the time we are reactive in AI regulation, its too late. <\/p>\n
Normally the way regulations are set up is that a whole bunch of bad things happen, theres a public outcry, and then after many years, a regulatory agency is set up to regulate that industry. Theres a bunch of opposition from companies who dont like being told what to do by regulators. It takes forever. <\/p>\n
That, in the past, has been bad but not something which represented a fundamental risk to the existence of civilisation. AI is a fundamental risk to the risk of human civilisation, in a way that car accidents, airplane crashes, faulty drugs or bad food were not. They were harmful to a set of individual in society, but they were not harmful to society as a whole. <\/p>\n
AI is a fundamental existential risk for human civilisation, and I dont think people fully appreciate that. <\/p>\n
However, he recognises that this will be easier said than done, since companies dont like being regulated. <\/p>\n
Also, any organisation working on AI will be crushed by competing companies if they dont work as quickly as possible, he said. It would be up to a regulator to control all of them. <\/p>\n
When its cool and regulators are convinced that its safe to proceed, then you can go. But otherwise, slow down. <\/p>\n
He added: I think wed better get on [introducing regulation] with AI, pronto. Therell certainly be a lot of job disruption because whats going to happen is robots will be able to do everything better than us. Im including all of us. <\/p>\n
Earlier this year, Mr Musk said that humans will have to merge with machines to avoid becoming irrelevant. <\/p>\n
Ray Kurzweil, a futurist and Googles director of engineering, believes that computers will have human-level intelligence by 2029. <\/p>\n
However, he believes machines will improve humans, making us funnier, smarter and even sexier. <\/p>\n
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