Elon Musk has spoken often about the potential benefits and potential dangers of artificial intelligence long before OpenAI’s ChatGPT was launched in November and subsequently Google’s Bard and Microsoft’s new Bing chatbots were announced. And now, he continued to voice his concerns about the rise of artificial intelligence at the World Government Summit in Dubai.
“One of the biggest risks to the future of civilization is artificial intelligence,” Musk said, and continued: “It has great promises, great capabilities, both positive and negative. But it also brings great dangers.”
Ironically, Musk was one of the first founders of the OpenAI company, which launched the ChatGPT chatbot in November 2022. The famous billionaire left the company in 2018. Now, he says, the release of ChatGPT gives the public a better idea of current advances in AI: “Artificial intelligence has been advanced for a while. It just didn’t have an accessible user interface for most people.”
Musk also reiterated what he said a few years ago about regulating the use of artificial intelligence, noting that he believes regulation could slow down the development process, but that it could be good in the long run: “I think it’s a bigger risk to society than cars, airplanes, or medicine.”
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