Twitter and Tesla CEO Elon Musk warned viewers of the dangers of artificial intelligence on Monday. He then announced that he would create his own AI platform that would try to understand the nature of the universe.
Musk warned of AI’s potential risks to humanity, claiming it could be more dangerous than mismanaged airplane designs and could even destroy entire civilizations on its own.
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“AI is more dangerous than, say, mismanaged aircraft design or production maintenance or bad car production,” Musk told Fox News host Tucker Carlson.
“It has the potential, however small one may regard that probability, but it is nontrivial and has the potential of civilization destruction,” he added.
Musk followed the warning by confirming that he believes the current direction AI is heading could lead to something that could take control and make decisions for humans.
The move came after Musk and a group of AI experts called for a six-month pause in developing systems more powerful than OpenAI’s GPT-4. They called for the pause because of AI’s possible risks to society. However, Musk also unveiled his own plans to create a different AI platform he called “TruthGPT.” It would seek truthfulness and attempt to understand the universe.
“I think this might be the best path to safety, in the sense that an AI that cares about understanding the universe; it is unlikely to annihilate humans because we are an interesting part of the universe,” Musk said.
Musk has been poaching AI researchers from Google to launch his startup, which would battle his former company OpenAI, which he co-founded in 2015.
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Musk’s comments come in a two-night special with Carlson. The duo also discussed his acquisition of Twitter and the wide range of control that certain aspects of the government had on the social media platform. Their access even extended to personal direct messages, Musk said. Musk purchased Twitter for $44 billion last year.
The billionaire CEO also runs the spacecraft engineering company SpaceX, which delayed its latest launch because of a pressurization problem with the rocket. The rocket launch was tentatively rescheduled for scheduled for Thursday, April 20.
