Tesla’s controlling shareholder has also launched a major price war in the Chinese car market. It’s a move that seems destined to quickly put some of his smaller rivals out of business.
That hasn’t stopped Musk from coming up with plans to join the likes of OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft in the rapidly escalating AI arms race. But in true mask form, his ambitions are confusing, to say the least.
Trying to assuage concerns about the dark side of AI, Musk told Fox News:
“We are an interesting part of the universe, so I think this might be the best route to safety in the sense that an AI trying to understand the universe is unlikely to wipe out humans,” Musk said. Told.
It’s a respectable quest, but it’s also worrying on several levels at the same time. .
Ultimately, this means sharing a false conspiracy theory with your 110 million followers about the life-threatening attack on Nancy Pelosi’s husband, pitched by a right-wing website with a history of spreading fake news. A man who didn’t think about anything.
Meanwhile, Musk’s attempts to present himself as a free speech crusade have been severely undermined by the spread of misinformation on Twitter since last year’s $44 billion acquisition.
Entrepreneurs can’t even make up their minds about whether they should go ahead with AI. Just last month, he added his name to a list of nearly 1,000 signatories from the worlds of business, academia and technology, temporarily suspending the building of AI systems as technology spirals “out of control.” asked to stop. But here he is committed to spearheading the movement.
Musk is too impulsive, too reckless, too ideologically driven to trust anything like this. According to Elon Musk, in his hands, “truth” risks becoming true very quickly.
But assuming he’s serious about becoming a major AI player, the scariest aspect of the Fox News interview is that the best Musk can offer in terms of reassurance is that his version ” I hope more good than harm.”
