Elon Musk warns AI could wipe out humanity
by: Ethan A. Huff
NaturalNews.com
Sunday, October 26, 2014
Humanity’s quest to outsmart the Creator by developing robots of a higher and more adaptable level of intelligence could prove disastrous for the survival of our species, says Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk.
Speaking at Vanity Fair’s New Establishment Summit in San Francisco, Musk told Aspen Institute President and CEO Walter Isaacson that artificial intelligence (AI), at least as it is currently advancing, threatens to destroy human life by making robots inherently smarter and more intuitive.
A vocal proponent of AI technology, Isaacson wrote in a recent Aspen Journal of Ideas piece that today’s biggest innovations are coming from efforts that combine human inspiration with computer processing — this is the essence of AI.
“Decade after decade, new waves of experts have claimed the imminent arrival of artificial intelligence, perhaps even a ‘singularity’ when computers aren’t only smarter than humans but also can design themselves to be even supersmarter, and will thus no longer need us mere mortals,” wrote Isaacson.
It is this seemingly sci-fi concept that Musk worries will spell the undoing of humanity, as technologists dive headfirst into a brave new world controlled by machines that possess an advanced and ever-evolving level of intelligence.
“I don’t think anyone realizes how quickly artificial intelligence is advancing,” warned Musk at the meeting. “Particularly if [the machine is] involved in recursive self-improvement… and its utility function is something that’s detrimental to humanity, then it will have a very bad effect.”
“If its [function] is just something like getting rid of e-mail spam and it determines the best way of getting rid of spam is getting rid of humans…,” he trailed off, to the resounding laughter of an amused crowd.
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