Elon Musk believes AI could turn humans into an endangered species like the mountain gorilla

Isobel Asher Hamilton,Isobel Asher HamiltonNov 26, 2018, 06.25 PM

HBO/YouTubeElon Musk talked to Axios about the future of AI.

Elon Musk talked to Axios about his neuroscience and AI company Neuralink, which he hopes will achieve "symbiosis" between AI technology and humans.
He warned that if not handled properly, AI could endanger the human race in the same way humans have driven down the numbers of other primate species, such as mountain gorillas.
Musk has made similarly alarming claims about AI in the past, but not all tech leaders share his fears.

Elon Musk told "Axios on HBO" about his AI company Neuralink, and its efforts to develop technology that creates a symbiosis between humans and AI to try and curb the possibility of an existential threat to humanity.
Neuralink is Musk's neuroscience company, which is trying to develop an interface for AI technology with the human brain. He describes it as "electrode to neuron interface at a micro level," or in layman's terms "a chip and a bunch of tiny wires" that goes in your brain.
Musk said the long-term goal is to achieve "symbiosis with artificial intelligence." He also hopes it would stop governments and corporations from monopolising the technology.Read more: Why Elon Musk's plan to give us 'superhuman' brains is doomed to fail
He added that artificial intelligence will inevitably exceed human intelligence. "As the algorithms and the hardware improve, that digital intelligence will exceed biological intelligence by a substantial margin," he told Axios.
He went so far as to suggest that if handled badly, the advent of general AI - i.e. AI that matches or exceeds human intelligence - could make humans an endangered species. He used other primates, which humans have driven to ever smaller corners of the Earth, as an example.

Edith Honan/ReutersA mountain gorilla.

"When a species of primate, homo sapiens, became much smarter than other primates, it pushed all the other ones into a very small habitat... So there are very few mountain gorillas and orangutans and chimpanzees - monkeys in general," he said.

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