North Korea ‘low on our list of concerns’ says Tesla boss following Putin’s statement that whoever leads in AI will rule worldElon Musk has said again that artificial intelligence could be humanity’s greatest existential threat, this time by starting a third world war. Elon Musk (@elonmusk) China, Russia, soon all countries w strong computer science. He’s less worried about North Korea’s increasingly bold nuclear ambitions, arguing that the result for Pyongyang if they launched a nuclear missile “would be suicide” – and that it doesn’t have any entanglements that would lead to a world war even if it did. Musk’s fear of AI warfare has been a driving force in his public statements for a long time. “These can be weapons of terror, weapons that despots and terrorists use against innocent populations, and weapons hacked to behave in undesirable ways.

Source: The Guardian September 04, 2017 10:52 UTC