Elon Musk Quotes

Public trust is a vital condition for artificial intelligence to be used productively.

What all of us have to do is to make sure we are using AI in a way that is for the benefit of humanity, not to the detriment of humanity.

The first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make, provided that the machine is docile enough to tell us how to keep it under control.

Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.

Society is now at a crucial juncture in determining how to deploy AI-based technologies in ways that promote rather than hinder democratic values such as freedom, equality, and transparency.

Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking, and others have stated that they think AI is an existential risk. I disagree. I don't see a risk to humanity of a 'Terminator' scenario or anything of the sort.

We all have a responsibility to make sure everyone - including companies, governments, and researchers - develop AI with diversity in mind.

I do think we need to at least register artificial intelligence units to be able to monitor and control them. Because we want to control them and not vice versa.

It is deeply against my principles to work on any project that I think is to weaponize AI.

Giving the control over powerful AI to the highest bidder is unlikely to lead to the best world we can imagine.

The main reason I backed DeepMind was strategic: I see my role as bridging the AI research and AI safety communities.

The real problem is not the existential threat of AI. Instead, it is in the development of ethical AI systems.

An intelligence that is not humane is the most dangerous thing in the world .

As long as your robot isn't programmed by like Dr. Evil, I think you're going to be fine.

A.I. poses a potential threat more dangerous than nuclear weapons.

At times, we forget the magnitude of the havoc we can wreak by off-loading our minds onto super-intelligent machines, that is, until they run away from us, like mad sorcerers' apprentices, and drag us up to the precipice for a look down into the abyss.

The question is, you know, will someone accidentally build a robot that takes over from us? And that's sort of like this lone guy in the backyard, you know - 'I accidentally built a 747.' I don't think that's going to happen.

Faced with the profound changes that AI technologies can produce, pressure for "more" and "tougher" regulation is inevitable. Misunderstanding about what AI is and is not, especially against a background of scare-mongering, could fuel opposition to technologies that could benefit everyone. This would be a tragic mistake. Regulation that stifles innovation, or relocates it to other jurisdictions, would be similarly counterproductive.

It's perfectly reasonable to say that AIs are potentially dangerous. That seems to me like a statement of fact.

I do think there should be some regulations on AI.

If you believe everything you read, you are probably quite worried about the prospect of a superintelligent, killer AI.

There are many valid concerns about AI, from its impact on jobs to its uses in autonomous weapons systems and even to the potential risk of superintelligence.

It's much more likely that an asteroid will strike the Earth and annihilate life as we know it than AI will turn evil.

I think it's important for us to have a rule that if a system is really an AI bot, it ought to be labeled as such. 'AI inside.' It shouldn't pretend to be a person. It's bad enough to have a person calling you and harassing you, or emailing you. What if they're bots? An army of bots constantly haranguing you - that's terrible.

I could do a whole talk on the question of is AI dangerous.' My response is that AI is not going to exterminate us. It's a tool that's going to empower us.