AI, the Biggest Existential Threat to Humankind says Elon Musk

Adopting AI Is Like" Summoning the Demon"; Says Musk

Artificial Intelligence, is all about the theory and development of computer systems that are able to perform tasks normally without human intervention but requiring human intelligence for visual perception, speech recognition, decision-making, and translation between languages. It is an interdisciplinary competence with numerous perspectives. Today the development of AI is creating a progressive shift in the division of the tech industry.

Although AI is announced as one of the evolving technologies having the most extraordinary benefits, many business tycoons and tech enthusiasts still consider it a significant threat to humankind and thus calls for more investigation on its collective consequences.

This article will take through the views on real-world AI expressed by Elon Musk, Tesla, and SpaceX Chief executive.

Many signatories, including Musk, expressed their concern regarding the serious consequences of AI. They think that digital machines with the incorporation of AI will rapidly outmaneuver humans. Elon Musk calls AI the most dangerous warning for humanity. He says he is not against digital transformation but when it is about AI he has a very different view. He also claimed to be careful about the advancement of AI.

Musk says, with machine learning a self-driving car cannot be taught to detect unusual conditions like spotting a plastic bag accompanying the breeze on a jammed road or predicting the movement of a biker, such situations are difficult to teach a robot.

Going forward with robust AI systems is a more significant mistake that can result in threatening conditions for humanity, says Musk.

Elon Musk says adopting AI is like "Summoning the Demon".  He believes that artificial intelligence can evoke the next world war and result in dominating the world and that robot leadership is a threat to the world. He also warns that the world will never be able to escape when those intelligent AIs will become deathless authoritarians.

One of his statements included that "we need to be super careful with AI as they are potentially more dangerous than nukes". He also recommends being energetic in regulation rather than being reactive when everything ends.

He believes that development of AI should be done with improved regulations and controlling structure. He wants AI to be controlled and structured even for his own brand Tesla.

Elon Musk considers AI as the scariest problem. He had regularly cautioned that AI will rapidly become as clever as humans and once it does, humankind's existence will be at stake.

He also claimed that he already has experience working with AI so he knows what he is saying and has confidence in it. He further said that the world will proceed in a state where AI is more intelligent than humans. He also mentioned the time frame which is not more than 5 years when AI will take over the world and things would get weird and unstable.  Musk claims AI will outsmart humanity and overtake human civilization in less than five years and also that AI and robots will take over everyone's jobs and will do everything better than us.

According to him, AI is the real existential risk to humankind and people should not cherish that. He also asked the government department to take preventive and proactive governmental steps before it gets too late.

Elon Musk is working hard to save the world from AI, as a result, he wants the technologies to be developed responsibly and with proper vision and oversight. He wants the government to develop teams and take a look over it. He also said that if the government can't then he is ready to take the charge by himself. In the past few years, Elon has spent enormous resources on tech industries that are responsible for the development of intelligent machinery. However, he is considered working on technology that would give humankind an acceleration in a possible AI catastrophe.