"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