Elon Musk was recently interviewed at an MIT Symposium. An audience asked his views on artificial intelligence (AI). Musk turned very serious, and urged extreme caution and national or international regulation to avoid "doing something stupid" he said.
"With artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon", said Musk. "In all those stories where there's the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, it's like, 'Yeah, he's sure he can control the demon.' Doesn't work out."
Read the story and see the full interview here.
(Score: 2) by Joe Desertrat on Wednesday October 29 2014, @02:41AM
I think we may need to fear when the AI that doesn't escape from its box. Humanity doesn't have a long history of doing good deeds. I doubt the AI's master will have the well being of anyone implanted into the coded. Controlled AI and near AI is likely to harm the masses more than help, and I bet that will be by design.
Not to mention that there always seem to be security flaws in even the best designed systems, even if the master is benevolent what if...