Elon Musk Worries AI Will Mean Humans End Up ‘Like the House Cat’

Elon Musk Worries AI Will Mean Humans End Up ‘Like the House Cat’
Elon Musk arrives for a discussion during the 2014 annual conference of the Export-Import Bank (EXIM) April 25, 2014 in Washington, DC. Alex Wong/Getty Images
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The question would then be if the OpenAI or any freely distributed AI will be able to match the power of the ones developed privately.

Yet that still doesn’t solve the first issue Musk raised—the progress of AI.

“If you have ultra-intelligent AI, we would be so far below them in intelligence that we would be like a pet,” Musk said. “We'll be like the house cat.”

“I mean, I don’t love the idea of being a house cat,” he said.

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