There’s something about tech and social media where we’re like: ‘Yeah, sure, we’ll figure it out later,’” she said. We would never, as a collective, accept this kind of mindset in any other industrial field. “The technology is put out there, and as the system interacts with humankind, its developers wait to see what happens and make adjustments based on that. Valérie Pisano, the chief executive of Mila – the Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute – said the slapdash approach to safety in AI systems would not be tolerated in any other field. Musk told Fox News that Page wanted “digital superintelligence, basically a digital god, if you will, as soon as possible”. Last month, Elon Musk said he had fallen out with the Google co-founder Larry Page because Page was “not taking AI safety seriously enough”. He is not alone in the upper echelons of AI research in fearing that the technology could pose serious harm to humanity. And that’s how these chatbots can know so much more than any one person.” “So it’s as if you had 10,000 people and whenever one person learned something, everybody automatically knew it. “I’ve come to the conclusion that the kind of intelligence we’re developing is very different from the intelligence we have,” he said. It will allow authoritarian leaders to manipulate their electorates, things like that.”īut, he added, he was also concerned about the “existential risk of what happens when these things get more intelligent than us. “It’s able to produce lots of text automatically so you can get lots of very effective spambots. Some of the dangers of AI chatbots were “quite scary”, he told the BBC, warning they could become more intelligent than humans and could be exploited by “bad actors”.

He told the New York Times that until last year he believed Google had been a “proper steward” of the technology, but that changed once Microsoft started incorporating a chatbot into its Bing search engine, and the company began becoming concerned about the risk to its search business.

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