The billionaire owner of X, formerly known as Twitter, was among more than 20 tech and civil society leaders attending a closed-door Senate summit Wednesday focused on AI.
Elon Musk called for a “regulatory structure” for artificial intelligence after warning US senators about risks to civilisation posed by the nascent technology.tech and civil society leaders attending a closed-door Senate summit Wednesday focused on AI.“When there is something that is a potential danger to the public you want to have some oversight,” Musk told reporters.
Musk, who’s also the chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., told senators they shouldn’t be worried about self-driving cars, for instance, but instead should focus their concerns on what he called deeper AI, a person in the room said. Deep AI is an apparent reference to deep learning, a type of artificial intelligence that teaches computers to process data in a way that imitates the human brain.
Musk, who spoke off-the-cuff, particularly raised concerns about data centres so powerful and big that they could be seen from space, with a level of intelligence that is currently hard to comprehend, the person said.On China, Musk recounted his earlier trip to the nation and said he raised the risks of deep AI and superintelligence with senior officials there.
Musk told reporters he didn’t talk directly to Mark Zuckerberg at the summit but that he would be up for a cage match with the chief executive officer of Meta Platforms’ Facebook “if he wants to.”
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