Elon Musk warns senators that AI could cause ‘civilization destruction’
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Elon Musk warns senators that AI could cause ‘civilization destruction’
In a private meeting on Capitol Hill on Wednesday
Tesla CEO Elon Musk warned senators at a private meeting on Wednesday that unregulated artificial intelligence poses a “civilizational risk” to society, according to a senator in the room.
Musk made his remarks at a first-of-its-kind closed-door summit on AI attended by some of the tech industry’s biggest names, including Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, former Microsoft chief Bill Gates, Alphabet’s Sundar Pichai, and OpenAI founder Sam Altman.
As he left Capitol Hill after several hours, Musk called the gathering “historic.” He also endorsed the idea of a new federal agency to oversee AI and reiterated that the technology poses a tremendous danger.
“The consequences of AI going wrong are severe so we have to be proactive rather than reactive,” the tech billionaire told a group of reporters. “The question is really one of civilizational risk. It’s not like one group of humans versus another. It’s like, hey, this is something that’s potentially risky for all humans everywhere.”
The comments come after Musk launched his own AI company in July to build safe AI systems and help humans 'understand the true nature of the universe.'
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