Elon Musk: Artificial Intelligence Research Can Create an Eternal Dictator

You could say that Elon Musk is one of the pessimistic technology experts with the development of artificial intelligence (AI).

Last year, the CEO of Space X and Tesla, along with 100 AI experts, signed an open letter asking the United Nations to ban killer robot technology.


This time, Musk expressed his concern about the appearance of an eternal dictator thanks to the research of artificial intelligence.

In a new documentary titled Do You Trust This Computer ?, Musk says, we are rapidly moving towards super digital intelligence far beyond humans. I think this is very clear. If there is one company or a group of people who can create super digital intelligence like God, they can take over the world.

Musk's fear is not without reason.

Imagine if there is a network of millions of computers that have access to all human information. This network can also make millions of calculations in a fraction of a second and control the economy, as well as weapons systems around the world. Of course it would be the worst nightmare of a man.

A robot dictator also has a terrifying advantage over a human dictator, the ability to live forever.

Quoted from Live Science, Friday (6/4/2018), Musk said, at least if there is a human dictator, the person will one day die. But for AI there is no such thing as death.

"He will live forever, and we will never be able to escape from that eternal dictator," he said.

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