Artificial Inteligence is deadlier than North Korea, Elon Musk warns

August 17,2017

In this photo, taken Sept. 29, 2015, Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors Inc., talks about the Model X car at the company’s headquarters in California. In tweet on Monday, July 3, 2017, Musk announced that the Model 3 car for the masses will go on sale on Friday, July 7. (Photo by MARCIO JOSE SANCHEZ / AP)

Tesla founder Elon Musk has long been wary of the rise of Artificial Inteligence (AI) and its possible threat to mankind.

With North Korea’s nuclear capabilities becoming a cause of concern internationally, the 46-year-old billionaire inventor and tech-philanthropist said that people should be more alarmed by AI safety rather than the Kim Jong-un-led nation.

“If you’re not concerned about AI safety, you should be. Vastly more risk than North Korea,” he wrote on Twitter, which has been shared over 12,000 times.

Musk further elaborated how the government should soon focus on monitoring AI’s booming advancement.

“Nobody likes being regulated, but everything (cars, planes, food, drugs, etc) that’s a danger to the public is regulated. AI should be too,” he said in a subsequent tweet.

Furthermore, Musk cited a recent AI takeover during a sports event, where OpenAI—a company specializing in promoting a friendly machined-learned bots—dominated a revered Dota 2 professional gamer at his own game.

Meanwhile, a recent study from Oxford University seems to corroborate Musk’s predictions, claiming that AI will be better at handling all tasks than humans within the next 45 years.  –Khristian Ibarrola , /ra

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