Elon Musk Warns AI Could Kill All of Humanity

Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia -The founding story of OpenAI, the company that created ChatGPT, has been revealed. Elon Musk claims OpenAI was founded because he and the other founders were concerned about the threat Google’s AI poses to humanity.

The story was part of the testimony in Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and other OpenAI executives. Musk accused Altman of defrauding him by turning OpenAI’s “noble” mission into a profit-making one. Musk is a co-founder of OpenAI and its first investor.

“Basically, I suspect they’ll make this lawsuit seem very complicated, when it’s actually very simple. Is it permissible to steal charity?” he said.

Musk claims that OpenAI originated from an idea he had during a discussion with Google founder Larry Page. He continued, saying that companies like OpenAI are necessary because Google doesn’t care about safety in AI development..

“I asked [Larry Page], what if AI wipes out humanity? He said it doesn’t matter as long as AI survives. I said that’s crazy. He even called me a ‘speciesist’ because I care more about humans than AI,” he said.

“I asked [Larry Page], what if AI wipes out humanity? He said it doesn’t matter as long as AI survives. I said that’s crazy. He even called me a ‘speciesist’ because I care more about humans than AI,” he said.

That conversation sparked the idea to create a Google competitor.

“I came up with the idea, the name, I hired key employees, taught them everything I knew, and provided the initial capital,” Musk said.

Musk’s lawyer, Steven Molo, also asked Musk to provide his perspective on AI. Musk said he expects AI to be “smarter than humans” as early as next year.

“It could kill us all. We don’t want the outcome to be like Terminator. We want to be in Gene Roddenberry’s world, like Star Trek, not like James Cameron’s Terminator,” Musk said.

SOURCE : CNBC INDONESIA