Something that we saw a lot in various Hollywood movies in past decades, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is now more than a reality and is slowly establishing itself in the universe of technologies.
In full swing, who has recently expressed his concern about the escalation of AI was the billionaire and controversial businessman, Elon Musk, after being asked by an investor if he would incorporate these technologies into Tesla cars, a firm he owns.
AI negative at Tesla
The tycoon, also CEO of SpaceX and Twitter, responded forcefully to the query that he will not add AI to Tesla’s cars in the short term and added that he is concerned about the advances of these technologies, which in recent months have seen prototypes performing tasks Before, exclusive to human beings, such as writing texts or creating images.
“I think it’s something we should worry about. We should have some kind of regulatory authority, or something like that, that oversees the development of AI and ensures that it operates in the public interest,” said Musk, who once again summarized AI as “quite a dangerous technology” and acknowledged his regret for to have participated in hastening his presence.
In the past, Musk had already said that these technologies “will be responsible for World War III, and on another occasion he commented that advances in the area will make human beings look like monkeys compared to advanced machines.” Now, in the framework of a summit held in Dubai, he said that the uncontrolled development of AI could pose a threat to societies.
Musk and artificial intelligence
Through Tesla, Elon Musk presented the first versions of a humanoid robot that, in part, incorporates these technologies. His firm Neuralink also plans to combine digital advances with human thought, inserting chips into the brain, with preliminary tests that already generate controversy, likewise, the South African was one of the creators of OpenAI, an organization that was founded to investigate the scope of artificial intelligence and to which it no longer belongs.