"Competition for AI superiority at national level most likely cause of WW3 imo," Musk said in another tweet, using the Internet short-hand for "in my opinion."
But Musk believes others will try to catch up by any means possible. "Govts don't need to follow normal laws," he said in one tweet. "They will obtain AI developed by companies at gunpoint, if necessary."
In another reply on Twitter, Musk speculated that an AI system could choose to start a war "if it decides that a prepemptive [sic] strike is most probable path to victory."
"I was trying to really sound the alarm on the AI front for quite a while, but it was clearly having no impact," he said in one interview .. https://waitbutwhy.com/2017/04/neuralink.html .. around the launch of Neuralink. "So I was like, 'Oh fine, okay, then we'll have to try to help develop it in a way that's good.' "
Stephanie -- why are we headed that way? -- well, look at the purposes for which they (artificial/synthetic intelligence and increasingly advanced/autonomous robots/robotics including remote sensing/tracking, all as ever-increasingly connected/networked) are being developed -- to replace human labor wholesale... http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=108526643
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”
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