Them’s fightin’ words: Musk hits back at Zuckerberg over AI comments

Artificial intelligence (AI) Musk described the Facebook CEO’s knowledge of the field as ‘limited’ after Zuckerberg publicly dismissed AI doomsday warnings as ‘irresponsible’ Elon Musk. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO believes artificial intelligence poses a “fundamental risk to the existence of civilization”. Photograph: Ringo HW Chiu/AP Artificial intelligence (AI) Them’s fightin’ words: Musk hits back at Zuckerberg over AI comments Musk described the Facebook CEO’s knowledge of the field as ‘limited’ after Zuckerberg publicly dismissed AI doomsday warnings as ‘irresponsible’ Tech billionaires Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg have entered into a public squabble about artificial intelligence in which Musk described the Facebook CEO’s knowledge of the field as “limited”. The groundwork for the world’s nerdiest fight was laid by Musk, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO, earlier this month, when he pushed again for the proactive regulation of artificial intelligence because he believes it poses a “fundamental risk to the existence of civilization”. Musk, who has been issuing warnings like these for years now, is concerned that humans will become second-class citizens in a future dominated by artificial intelligence – or that we’ll face a Terminator-style robot uprising. Enter Zuckerberg, who on Sunday denounced these types of warnings as “pretty irresponsible”.…


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