Elon Musk warns environmentalist “extinctionists” could programme AI for “human extinction”

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00:00 movement, and I'm an environmentalist, has gone too far.

00:03 They've gone way too far.

00:05 You know, if you start thinking that humans are bad,

00:09 then the natural conclusion is humans should die out.

00:13 Now, I'm headed to an AI safety, international sort of

00:17 AI safety conference, latest night,

00:19 leaving in about three hours.

00:21 And I'm gonna meet with the British Prime Minister,

00:26 a number of other people.

00:29 So you have to say, how could AI go wrong?

00:32 Well, if AI gets programmed by the extinctionists,

00:36 its utility function will be the extinction of humanity.

00:41 - Yeah, clearly.

00:44 - Yeah.

00:45 - Yeah, I mean, particularly if--

00:46 - They won't even think it's bad, like that guy.

00:47 - Right, yeah.

00:49 If you let AI-- - It's messed up.

00:51 - There's a lot of decisions that AI would make

00:54 that would be very similar to eugenics.