Artificial Intelligence Experts Rebut Elon Musk’s Warning and Call for Regulation
Artificial intelligence (AI) experts are rebutting Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk following his warning that AI could likely become the biggest threat to humans. Reuters/Bobby YipElon Musk worries artificial intelligence could take over the humans one day. Musk gave a speech during the annual National Governors Association meeting last weekend, where he implored government leaders to consider regulating this technology as soon as possible, as a precautionary measure. Musk’s worries over AI might be hard to reconcile considering he is the founder of technology and space companies and he is using AI for his developments. But he told a room full of politicians that a proactive regulation for AI is better than a reactive regulation because by then, the response might come too late. But AI experts around the world came together to rebut Musk’s declarations. Toby Walsh, an AI professor at the University of New South Wales said that Musk made an alarmist remark. “There’s a healthy research community working on ensuring that these machines won’t pose an existential threat to humanity,” Walsh said. “I expect they’ll have worked out precisely what safeguards are needed by then.” Subbarao Kambhampati, who teaches computer science at the Arizona State University, also described…
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