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During a recent public talk, SpaceX boss Elon Musk answered many questions on various topics. Among these topics was artificial intelligence and the impact it will have on humanity in the future.
Elon Musk shared his vision of what impact AI may have on mankind in the future.
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— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 7, 2024
Elon Musk’s crucial statement on future AI effect
The tech magnate stated that the percentage of biological intelligence “grows smaller with each passing month” and “eventually the percentage of intelligence that is biological will be less than one percent.”
In the future, Elon believes, biological intelligence is likely to serve as a “backstop or buffer of intelligence” and the majority of intelligence that will dominate the earth he expects to be of a digital nature. Musk does not know what exactly people will be left to do when it happens. He is, obviously, certain that we need AI that would be beneficial to humanity. He also shared that he had thought about AI safety for a long time.
What needs to be done to make AI foster humanity per Musk
Humanity does want AI that is “brutal”, Musk said and therefore it is also very important, he emphasized, that AI is taught to be maximally truth-seeking and curious. To be truth-seeking, it must be trained to tell the truth, the entrepreneur pointed out, even if the truth is not politically correct. Only in that case, Musk believes, AI will be able to foster human civilization in the future.
Musk referred to the film “2001 a Space Odyssey” based on a script written by renowned sci-fi writer Arthur C. Clarke. In that movie, the AI called Hal on the spaceship killed the whole crew of the astronauts – it happened because Hal was forced to lie, Elon Musk believes.
“That’s what Arthur C. Clarke was trying to say,” the SpaceX boss said, “don’t make the AI lie.”
This is not the first statement made by Musk over the last two years about the necessity to make a truthful AI, not “woke” one – he believes the current trend in AI making (OpenAI’s ChatGPT, etc) to be the latter.
To oppose that trend, Musk has created his own AI startup xAI and AI chatbot called Grok, which is integrated on X now.