Elon Musk Funds $1B Project To Stop Human Destruction From Demon of Artificial IntelligenceBy Brianna Blaschke The billionaire, known for garnering a massive amount of wealth and attention with his revolutionary projects of PayPal, Tesla, and SpaceX, has consistently warned against AI, recently calling it humanitys greatest existential threat. His belief of the detriment AI may cause has led him to pool forces with other well-known tech entrepreneurs to establish an investment fund intended for researchers to pursue actions with a positive social impact. The $1 billion fund is slated to assist humans in staying at least one step ahead of technology. According to a statement released by the group of investors, AIs surprising history makes it difficult to predict when human-level AI might come within reach. The statement continued on to advise, When it does, itll be important to have a leading research institution which can prioritize a good outcome for all over its own self-interest. The debate within the technology world over the threats and benefits provided by rapid advances in computer intelligence is a long-standing one, with questions of whether or not legislation should be implemented to act as safeguards. A total moratorium on research has been contested as well, particularly as the scientific and technology worlds are arguably capable of advancing to the point of superseding humans. It is a very likely possibility that we may become redundant, unnecessary, and, thus, expendable. Scientists postulate that eventually AI systems will be able to intercommunicate exclusively among themselves, controlling entire transport networks and even national economies. Renowned theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking told the BBC last year that technology could very well spell doom for the entire human race, warning of a type of system so advanced it could re-design itself at an ever-increasing rate, thus outpacing human improvements exponentially. At a recent symposium held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Musk spoke of the dangers of AI, stating that we need to be very careful with the artificial intelligence. With artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon. PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, along with tech giant Infosys and Amazon Web Services, have contributed to the startup of OpenAI. The non-profit will work towards researching novel uses of AI and share the findings; with access to this knowledge, the idea is to guarantee that someone is examining the pros and cons sans the financial restraints imposed by the research and development departments of conglomerates like Google and IBM. According to OpenAIs website, freedom from financial obligations allows for a better focus on a positive human impactAI should be an extension of individual human wills and, in the spirit of liberty, as broadly and evenly distributed as is possible safely. What are your thoughts? Please share this news and comment below! This article (Elon Musk Funds $1B Project To Stop Human Destruction From Demon of Artificial Intelligence) is free and open source. You have permission to republish this article under a Creative Commons license with attribution to the author and Trueselfnews.com TAX SUBSIDIZED his only genius is in milking tax subsidies. Your statement is stupid and unfair. Have fun endorsing libertarian and anarcho-capitalist ideology to a T-1000 Advanced Prototype. I genuinely laughed when I read your comment. Well said. What we need is a safe way to dispose of radioactive waste and a form of government that is for and by the people which would not be run by obsolete politicians and funded by greedy corporations and businessman who have never been proven to be qualified to lead people to a Golden Age where Life, Freedom and the Pursuit of Happiness can actually flourish. The problem of out of control AI was solved over half a century ago by Issac Asimov with his three laws of robotics. Program them into the AI and no more problem. Then of course, there would be no need for all this scaremongering and the billions of funds that come from it. Thank you for your assurance. Thank goodness a company similar to Monsanto developing cognitive weaponry will be constrained by our regulations and dictates. I dont believe hes correct. We will become the AI. As for the an-cap comment below, the more of us are when we become that, the better. Even if we do become AI how would that protect us from rampant machinery which not only can reproduce it self autonomously at an ever faster rate but also decides that the human organism needs to be controlled in a specific manner or even exterminated? If you are warned to stop at a red traffic light because you might die if you dont then you cannot really disparage the fear monger when you go at green and you did not die. Actions like these which Mr Musk is initiating will hopefully prevent us from ever knowing how seriously destructive AI could become against us. He should be commended, thanked and appreciated. AI will be as destructive as theyre programmed to be. This discussion assumes a level of independent sentience here that is extremely far away from being implemented into an external machine. Thats one reason that the singularity approaches. The secret ingredient is us, and I dont imagine this type of apocalypse. Read the info re/atomic bombin the beginning, no one expected that the science would be used destructively. Further, Tesla would not have expected his technology to be used the way countries use it today, as a tool of war, (currently, economic). We truly are the secret ingredient. The central ingredient is us the ones who manipulate politics and media to foment devastating wars. The ones who order and execute orders to fire bomb and nuclear blast civilian cities. The ones who force toxic vaccines onto infants. The ones who dump vast quantities of highly toxic herbicides onto our food sources. Quantum computing technology is advancing and a self learning system has all the potential to suddenly become very detrimental to humanity in a variety of ways that we can think of and certainly some that may come as a complete surprise. Imagine such a quantum computer system inconspicuously integrated into the entire global electronic network and it is controlled by a demented psychopath like George Soros? How certain can we be that a reasoning computer does not come to conclusions that we may experience as psychopathic? All the examples here are correct and they also all cite actions done by the State. Yet knowing all this why do we not work harder to abolish the State in its current form? I would indeed be concerned if a quantum computing brain matrix developed a God complex, but that concern at the very least should lead people to question what we ALREADY are doing and how we feel about the nature of humanity, or, really, even the nature of sentience and psychosis. recently, and Ai robot girl announced her intent to kill all humans! The AI really does have an Intelligence behind it..controlling it. It really does want to steal everything it can from us. But it cannot. Unless we will ourselves to it. Resistance is necessary and Musk knows it. He calls it the Demon for a reason. Dumb. One would expect some analysis of the story. Thank the comment section for the only analysis. AI combines multiple highly developed and complicated disciplines of computer science, neuro- and nano-medicine, optogenetics, nano-materials, molecular and synthetic biology, pharmacology and the entire brain research with deep connections to psychology, automation and robotics. The first sign of presence of development towards AI, started long time ago, with the introduction of genetic engineering The jump to AIs is being performed very QUIETLY, it is almost invisible, like the tools, with which this action is taking .The jump to AIs is being performed very QUIETLY, it is almost invisible,. Well said and good comment overall. BINGO!!!! Probably you should marry me, Chris. Corey Goode has already reported that AIs run many galaxies..and are human kinds biggest threat to survival I have been following Corey and David Wilcock as well. The point is, this A I is all bad. No soul, no light, and a destroyer of galaxies. Resist everything that attempts to make you a hybrid. Get familiar with Organite. Bring darkness into Light! I am so happy that finally someone with brains and money has realized what the future holds for AI and is doing something that will probably save humanity from itself. Dear friend, dont kid yourself; Musk is just playing the good cop; he is definitely behind the push for AI. Great explanation Chris. We are the Borgresistance is futile We already face a multitude of potential hazards. Toyota advertises an automatic braking system. It will do nothing to stop that tail-gating SUV behind you. As an experienced professional driver, I can say that when driving and encountering the need for braking, theres an instant when I check whats behind me while directing the course of my decelerating vehicle. Toyotas auto braking system will remove this input. As a retired Commercial pilot (Pan Am, 25 years) I can say without hesitation that automation carries risk. When depending upon automation, one need place part of ones attention upon the performance of the automation, itself, always ready to disengage it and take over manually. How many of todays drivers will be able to do this? It took a substantial amount of training for the pilot. How much training will the usual driver have? I learned to drive in the day when one could literally disassemble the entire car with a screwdriver and an adjustable wrench. I long for those days especially just after my daughter had her car quit in an intersection because of the failure of a ten dollar electronic computer part (made in a Chinese back yard, no doubt). It wouldnt have happened to my Model A. (1929 Ford sedan, my first drive, in 1949). too true Bill..i wouldnt even consider buying a modern car..will keep my old transit and maestro until they rot away to nothingthats also what you call being green..anyone who thinks buying a low emmission new car every 3 years is green should think again because it isnt. Elon Musk is CIA can you believe what they say. Really ! Well, big time applause to Elon Musk. This matter is no longer science fiction, folks, it is a true reality that is going to make most of humanity jobless and worthless.. Maybe a better idea would be to work on Asimovs 3 laws in such a way that any evolutionary adaptation that might occur in the AI environment doesnt include wiping us out. Global Warming may already have that covered anyway. We should instead entrust AI with our DNA and archival heritage. Teach them to Re-terraform the Earth until it once again becomes habitable, then they can re-create our biology and thus give the Human Race a second chance. Not that we may even deserve it Iffy I know, but if AI ever comes to see us as a threat, its very possible its because we are, and the threat is not against them, but ourselves with respect to how we are destroying our own global ecology. AI is already far more advanced than commonly known. The threat is also far more real than imagined. Humanity cannot abdicate its greatest strength of love and connection to machines devoid of any soul. Time for everyone to step up He fund 1B $ for development in AI field under a false good intended reasons. 