Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – Elon Musk thinks artificial intelligence (AI) could eventually put everyone out of work.
The billionaire owner of Tesla, SpaceX, Twitter and the newly formed AI startup xAI, says that AI will have the potential to be the most disruptive force in history.
“We will have something that, for the first time, is smarter than the smartest human,” Musk said at an event at Lancaster House, quoted from CNBC InternationalFriday (3/11/2023).
Speaking with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, Musk said it would be difficult to say exactly what kind of moment he was referring to. But what is certain is that a time will come when humans are no longer needed in work.
“You can have a job if you want to have a job for personal satisfaction. But AI will be able to do everything,” he said.
“I don’t know whether it makes people feel comfortable or not,” he added jokingly.
Musk has repeatedly warned of the threat AI poses to humanity, and once said that AI could be more dangerous than nuclear weapons.
He was one of many technology leaders who urged a temporary halt to development of AI more advanced than OpenAI’s GPT-4 software in an open letter released earlier this year.
 Tesla CEO Elon Musk waves as he arrives at the bipartisan Artificial Intelligence (AI) Insights Forum for all US senators hosted by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) at the US Capitol in Washington, USA, September 13, 2023. (REUTERS/Leah Millis) |
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Other tech leaders disagree with that view, including Palantir boss Alex Karp.
Speaking to BBC Radio in June, Karp said he was of the view that many people were asking for a break because they didn’t have the AI products.
Musk’s latest comments regarding AI followed the conclusion of a summit in Bletchley Park, England, where world leaders agreed to a global communique on AI that led them to find common ground on the risks posed by this technology to humanity.
Technologists and political leaders used the meeting to warn of the existential threat posed by AI, focusing on several possible doomsday scenarios that could take shape with the hypothetical discovery of superintelligence.
The summit saw the United States and China, the two countries most at odds over the technology, agree to find a global consensus on how to tackle some of the most complex questions surrounding AI, including how to develop it safely and regulate it.
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