AI

Autonomous cars as the co-founder of Tesla Motors.

Musk was an early investor in AI firm DeepMind, its sole purpose to "solve intelligence"

One of the founders of OpenAI

OpenAI is a non-profit artificial intelligence research company. Its goal is to advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return.

Elon invested in Vicarious, Whose aim is to build a neural network capable of replicating the part of the brain that controls vision, body movement and language. It's ultimate aim is to build a "computer that thinks like a person,”

Elon quotes

"The pace of progress in artificial intelligence (I'm not referring to narrow AI) is incredibly fast," said Musk. "Unless you have direct exposure to groups like Deepmind, you have no idea how fast — it is growing at a pace close to exponential."

"I am not alone in thinking we should be worried," said Musk. "

The leading AI companies have taken great steps to ensure safety. They recognize the danger, but believe that they can shape and control the digital superintelligences and prevent bad ones from escaping into the Internet. That remains to be seen ..."

"The risk of something seriously dangerous happening is in the five year timeframe. 10 years at most," wrote Musk. "Please note that I am normally super pro technology and have never raised this issue until recent months. This is not a case of crying wolf about something I don't understand."

"If I were to guess what our biggest existential threat is, it’s probably that. So we need to be very careful with the artificial intelligence," he said. "With artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon."