Calling artificial intelligence a double-edged sword, Elon Musk told U.S. senators on Wednesday that the technology can be a huge source of benefit to humanity but also a huge source of benefit to civilization, according to a person who attended the closed-door meeting. A warning about the risks faced.
The billionaire owner of X (formerly Twitter) is also one of them more than 20 Technology and civil society leaders attending the summit focused on artificial intelligence.
People in the room said Tesla Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk told senators they should not worry about self-driving cars and instead focus their concerns on what he called deeper artificial intelligence. Deep AI obviously refers to deep learning, a type of artificial intelligence that teaches computers to process data in a way that mimics the human brain.
Musk, speaking off the cuff, specifically expressed concern about data centers that are so powerful and massive that they can be seen from space and have a level of intelligence that is currently difficult to comprehend, this person said.
Among the projects launched by Musk, the world’s richest man, is xAI, an artificial intelligence company.
Regarding China, Musk recalled his earlier trip to China and said he raised the risks of deep artificial intelligence and superintelligence with senior officials there.
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