The founder of Tesla and owner of the social network of work will be necessary.”
After the AI security summit held in Bletchley Park (United Kingdom), Sunak and Musk chatted for about an hour at the Lancaster House palace in London in front of an audience of business leaders.
In his shirt sleeves, the British head of government was in charge of throwing questions at Musk, who described artificial intelligence as a “magical genius” capable of leading humanity towards an “age of abundance.” “We will not have a universal basic income, we will have a universal high income. In some sense, it will be a way to equalize and balance, because I really believe that everyone will have access to this magical genius,” Musk said during an event that could be seen delayed through X.
When addressing the topic of robots, the businessman emphasized the need to manufacture them with a mechanism to be able to turn them off if necessary.
“It's something we should be quite concerned about. “If a robot can chase you anywhere, what happens if one day they get a software update and stop being so friendly?” he asked.
The founder of the rocket company Space X also spoke about the ability of AI to keep humans “company.” Autonomous systems will be able to “know you better than anyone, maybe better than yourself,” he said. “You will have a great friend,” said Musk, who explained that one of his children has “some learning problems and problems making friends” and that “an AI friend would actually be great for him.”
Hours after his apocalyptic predictions, Elon Musk announced that today some selected users of currently” in some aspects. The company announced that it would become an audio and video platform powered by artificial intelligence last July, when it also confirmed that it had changed its logo and name.
Then, the CEO of the social network, Linda Yaccarino, commented that with this change of image it also opened “a second opportunity to make another great impression” by offering a super application powered by AI that will prove to be “the future of unlimited interactivity, focused on audio, video, messaging, payments/banking.” A few days before, the owner of the old Twitter had announced the creation of xAI, a firm focused on this technology and with which he hoped to compete against OpenAI, developer of ChatGPT.
