Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk— an outspoken artificial intelligence doubter — is again sounding warning bells about AI.
Musk took to Twitter early Friday morning to tease a new documentary by filmmaker Chris Paine, in which he appears. The film, called Do You Trust This Computer?, takes a hard look at artificial intelligence and so-called super-intelligence, or a form of AI even smarter than humans.
In the movie, Musk says anyone who develops “godlike digital super-intelligence” could “take over the world” and become “an immortal dictator from which we can never escape.”
“Nothing will affect the future of humanity more than digital super-intelligence,” he added on Twitter.
Nothing will affect the future of humanity more than digital super-intelligence. Watch Chris Paine’s new AI movie for free until Sunday night at https://t.co/WehHcZX7Qe
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 6, 2018
Despite the fact that Tesla, the car company that Musk helms, is experimenting with AI, he has called the technology “the greatest risk we face as a civilization” due to the dangers of its possible misuse.
During his latest Twitter thread, Musk’s criticism got literary, as he drew an opaque comparison between AI and Dr. Frankenstein’s monster.
“You are my creator, but I am your master” — Mary Shelley
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 6, 2018