Musk: Elon Musk has another ‘AI’ warning for you

At a time when artificial intelligence (AI) is a buzzword in the tech industry, Elon Musk has warned people of dangers artificial intelligence poses. He added that AI is a bigger risk to society than cars or planes or medicine. “It’s both positive or negative and has great, great promise, great capability, but, with that comes great danger,” Musk told attendees at the World Government Summit in Dubai, UAE.
He was talking about ChatGPT, the AI chatbot that generates human-like responses, and has taken the tech industry by storm.
Musk said, “ChatGPT has illustrated to people just how advanced AI has become. The AI has been advanced for a while. It just didn’t have a user interface that was accessible to most people”.
It is to be noted that Musk was one of the co-founders of OpenAI, the US startup that developed ChatGPT. He stepped down from OpenAI‘s board of directors in 2018 and no longer owns a stake in the company.

AI has no regulations
Musk reportedly stressed on the need to regulate AI, noting that unlike cars, planes, and medicine, AI has no regulations or rules keeping its development under control. “I think we need to regulate AI safety, frankly. It is, I think, actually a bigger risk to society than cars or planes or medicine,” said Musk.
While there is no regulation on AI development, both Google and Microsoft talked about AI principles when they launched their respective AI-powered products.

Musk slams Microsoft
Musk also criticised Microsoft for making profits via OpenAI, a non-profit organisation created by him. Microsoft infused $10 billion into it to incorporate its products and make it more useful for across industries. Musk said that OpenAI was created as an open source (which is why I named it “Open” AI), a non-profit company to serve as a counterweight to Google.
“But now it has become a closed-source, maximum-profit company effectively controlled by Microsoft. Not what I intended at all,” the Twitter CEO posted.