Artificial Intelligence (AI) is "one of the existential risks" facing humanity, says Elon Musk, the billionaire CEO of Space X, Tesla and X (formerly Twitter). "It's not clear to me we can actually control such a thing" he adds, speaking on the sidelines of a global AI safety summit hosted at the UK's Bletchley Park, where British codebreakers cracked Nazi Germany's "Enigma Code".
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00:00 I think AI is one of the biggest threats.
00:05 So, I mean, we are for the first time, we have a situation where there's something that is going to be far smarter than the smartest human.
00:16 So, you know, we're not stronger or faster than other creatures, but we are more intelligent.
00:23 And here we are for the first time, really, in human history with something that's going to be far more intelligent than us.
00:32 So, it's not clear to me we can actually control such a thing, but I think we can aspire to guide it in a direction that's beneficial to humanity.
00:44 But I do think it's one of the existential risks that we face, and it's potentially the most pressing one.
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