About nine countries of the world are equipped with nuclear weapons, and the long standing conflicts between the US and North Korea are breeding threats of a nuclear war. The US President Donald Trump took this discussion to Twitter and soon arguments about the nuclear warheads broke out. The world fears a nuclear war, but Elon Musk, the former advisor to the presidential cabinet, thinks that the artificial intelligence is a much bigger threat than nuclear weapons.
The famous investor and business magnate, Elon Musk, has repeatedly mentioned the problems that AI will bring to the human race.
Recently, he said that it is even worse than a nuclear war.
If you're not concerned about AI safety, you should be. Vastly more risk than North Korea. pic.twitter.com/2z0tiid0lc
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 12, 2017
Sounds like a joke? Not it isn’t. You would probably think that the founder of organizations like OpenAI and Neuralink would avoid saying such a thing. However, Musk wishes to regulate the AI. He continues to say that,
Nobody likes being regulated, but everything (cars, planes, food, drugs, etc) that's a danger to the public is regulated. AI should be too.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 12, 2017
The first bomb dropped on Musk’s concerns was ‘Game of Thrones’ jokes:
Elon Musk : AI :: John Snow : White Walkers
— Jason Toff (@jasontoff) August 12, 2017
Some may have taken the Tweet seriously, but others thought it was a comparison of oranges and apples.
https://twitter.com/AustinOnSocial/status/896167193678823424
https://twitter.com/AustinOnSocial/status/896167434154942465
In the end, the problem remains a laughing matter because AI is still a cute little toddler, isn’t it?
I agree. Adobe Illustrator is a danger to the public
— Aaron Patterson (@tenderlove) August 12, 2017
A machine learning specialist and adjunct professor at Standford, Reza Zadeh, who is also the CEO of a tech company Matroid, still considers that weapons are comparatively a bigger threat, as he tweets:
AI on its own will not be a danger to humans for the foreseeable future. AI combined with weapons, maybe. So, regulate weapons, not AI
— Reza Zadeh (@Reza_Zadeh) August 12, 2017
Zadeh got a pretty apt reply from Musk:
Biggest impediment to recognizing AI danger are those so convinced of their own intelligence they can't imagine anyone doing what they can't
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 12, 2017
Before we start argument about the greatest threat to the World, we might just want to take a glance at the list of the disasters that our planet is about to face. Nuclear war, climate change, AI, just name it! It is not an easy task to select one out of this deadly and scary list.
