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Elon Musk believes Artificial Intelligence may be “more dangerous than nukes”

Elon Musk, tech genius and co-founder of Tesla, Paypal, and SpaceX, warns the public to be careful of artificial intelligence as it has the possibility to self-learn and correct. We have all seen IRobot, this rebellion of robotics seems inevitable. A sort of destruction that will end human life, I mean how can you prove we aren’t in some sort of simulation like the Matrix.



Elon’s solution lies in control, “there should be some regulatory oversight, maybe at the national and international level to make sure that we don’t do something foolish.” Supervision is key in the monitoring of Artificial Intelligence. I asked some UCR students on whether there should be some sort of regulatory system for Artificial Intelligence to which they both agreed this should be implemented. Collegiate John* believes there, “absolutely should be a guidance and over watch.” he’s afraid of the same robot revolution that occurred in IRobot. Elon Musk hopes that “we’re not just the biological boot loader for digital super intelligence.”

Stephen Hawking suffers from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and was asked his opinion on revamping his assisted speech system; he was startled by the results. The software would  “learn and predict” his word preferences, and he fears creating something smarter than the human race.

There does indeed seem to be a future in Artificial Intelligence through transportation, computer interaction and ease of everyday living. When asking collegiate Robert* about his opinion he sees artificial intelligence having a major impact in “self-driving cars and space travel” and collegiate John*, “I think that I could see it in cars, the medical field and entertainment.” It is important to make sure that in the future we do not become just the flesh that robots need to keep the world alive.


Google acquired Boston Dynamincs and an artificial intelligence company called DeepMind, which come up with some pretty creepy robots. Ray Kurzweil, employed by Google, believes that humans will only be enhanced by artificial intelligence, which will keep us up to pace with robotics. A “merging with our intelligent creations.

Even after Kurzweil’s swaying evidence it is still integral to keep an eye on the world of artificial intelligence and its rapid evolution.

-Madison Burke


• *Names have been changed
• Kramer, Miriam. “Elon Musk: Artificial Intelligence Is Humanity's 'Biggest Existential Threat’”
• http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/feb/22/robots-google-ray-kurzweil-terminator-singularity-artificial-intelligence
• D’Orazio, Dante. “Elom Musk says artificial intelligence is ‘potentially more dangerous than nukes’”
• Fox News. http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2014/10/26/elon-musk-says-are-summoning-demon-with-artificial-intelligence/. October 26
• Seidel, Jamie. “Artificial intelligence is a risk to humanity says astrophysicist Stephen Hawking.” December, 3 2014.

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