Elon Musk Quotes

With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon. You know all those stories where there's the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, and he's like, yeah, he's sure he can control the demon? Doesn't work out.

I think that the development of artificial intelligence could lead to the end of the human race.

Every technology that can improve the human condition could harm the human condition. Someone evil could program a robot to hurt people.

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.

Science fiction has done a really good job of scaring us into thinking that computers shouldn't get too smart, because as soon as they get really smart, they're going to take over the world and kill us, or something like that. But why would they do that?

There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition.

The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.

Some claim that computers will, by 2050, achieve human capabilities. Of course, in some respects they already have.

By far, the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it.

As a society, we are underinvesting resources in research on the societal implications of AI technologies.

The story of automation is the story of a one-way shift from human control to automatic control.

Technology will save us if it doesn't wipe us out first.

The idea [of the Quantum Computer] is to create a machine that is as intelligence as humans, and probably much more so.

Today, there are industries employing hundreds of thousands of engineers creating artificial intelligence.

The revolution in AI [artifical intelligence] has been profound. It surprised me, even though I was sitting right there.

Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There's more opposable thumb in the digital world than I care for; it's awfully close to human.

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

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 believe the singularity is inevitable, and all businesses will be redefined as computers overtake humans in intelligence.

It is important to recognise that, alongside the huge benefits that artificial intelligence offers, there are potential ethical issues associated with some uses.

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

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.

And I think the greatest danger that AI poses isn't so much these anthropomorphic beings who look like us and are beguiling are going to fool us. It's the fact that a intelligence without a body or corporeal form will fool us into trusting it with data, which we seem to think is... it has no repercussions.

I am part of the World Economic Forum Global Council on Robotics and AI, and we spend a fair amount of our time together as a group discussing ethics, best practices, and the like.

AI is a tool. The choice about how it gets deployed is ours.