Elon Musk says AI could lead to third world war
Elon Musk says AI could lead to third world war
North Korea ‘low on our list of concerns’ says Tesla boss
following Putin’s statement that whoever leads in AI will rule world
By Alex Hern Monday 4 September 2017 06.58 EDT Last
modified on Monday 4 September 2017 09.15 EDT
Elon Musk has said again that artificial intelligence
could be humanity’s greatest existential threat, this time by starting a third
world war.
The prospect clearly weighs heavily on Musk’s mind, since
the SpaceX, Tesla and Boring Company chief tweeted at 2.33am Los Angeles time
about how AI could led to the end of the world – without the need for the
singularity.
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His fears were prompted by a statement from Vladimir
Putin that “artificial intelligence is the future, not only for Russia, but for
all humankind … It comes with colossal opportunities, but also threats that are
difficult to predict. Whoever becomes the leader in this sphere will become the
ruler of the world.”
Hashing out his thoughts in public, Musk clarified that
he was not just concerned about the prospect of a world leader starting the
war, but also of an overcautious AI deciding “that a [pre-emptive] strike is
[the] most probable path to victory”.
He’s less worried about North Korea’s increasingly bold
nuclear ambitions, arguing that the result for Pyongyang if they launched a
nuclear missile “would be suicide” – and that it doesn’t have any entanglements
that would lead to a world war even if it did. His view is that AI is “vastly
more risky” than the Kim Jong-un-led country.
Musk’s fear of AI warfare has been a driving force in his
public statements for a long time. Last month, he was one of more than 100
signatories calling for a UN-led ban of lethal autonomous weapons.
“Once developed, lethal autonomous weapons will permit
armed conflict to be fought at a scale greater than ever, and at timescales
faster than humans can comprehend,” the letter read. “These can be weapons of
terror, weapons that despots and terrorists use against innocent populations,
and weapons hacked to behave in undesirable ways.
“We do not have long to act. Once this Pandora’s box is
opened, it will be hard to close.”
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