{"id":76922,"date":"2018-03-15T05:42:48","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T12:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/elon-musk-mark-my-words-a-i-is-far-more-dangerous-than-nukes"},"modified":"2018-03-15T05:42:48","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T12:42:48","slug":"elon-musk-mark-my-words-a-i-is-far-more-dangerous-than-nukes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/elon-musk-mark-my-words-a-i-is-far-more-dangerous-than-nukes","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk: \u2018Mark my words \u2014 A.I. is far more dangerous than nukes\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elon-musk-mark-my-words-a-i-is-far-more-dangerous-than-nukes.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The billionaire tech entrepreneur called AI more dangerous than nuclear warheads and said there needs to be a regulatory body overseeing the development of super intelligence, speaking at the South by Southwest tech conference in Austin, Texas on <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sxsw.com\/news\/2018\/elon-musk-sxsw-2018-ticket-information\/\">Sunday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It is not the first time Musk has made frightening predictions about the potential of artificial intelligence \u2014 he has, for example, called <a href=\"https:\/\/trib.al\/2017\/08\/11\/elon-musk-issues-a-stark-warning-about-a-i-calls-it-a-bigger-threat-than-north-korea.html\">AI vastly more dangerous than North Korea<\/a> \u2014 and he has <a href=\"https:\/\/trib.al\/2017\/07\/17\/elon-musk-robots-will-be-able-to-do-everything-better-than-us.html\">previously called for regulatory oversight<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Some have called his tough talk fear-mongering. <a class=\"\" data-gdsid=\"139619\" data-inline-quote-symbol=\"FB\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/?symbol=FB\">Facebook<\/a> founder <a href=\"https:\/\/trib.al\/mark-zuckerberg\/\">Mark Zuckerberg<\/a> said Musk\u2019s doomsday AI scenarios are unnecessary and \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/trib.al\/2017\/07\/24\/mark-zuckerberg-elon-musks-doomsday-ai-predictions-are-irresponsible.html\">pretty irresponsible<\/a>.\u201d And Harvard professor <a href=\"https:\/\/trib.al\/2018\/03\/01\/elon-musk-responds-to-harvard-professor-steven-pinkers-a-i-comments.html\">Steven Pinker also recently criticized Musk\u2019s tactics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2018\/03\/13\/elon-musk-at-sxsw-a-i-is-more-dangerous-than-nuclear-weapons.html?__source=facebook|makeit\">https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2018\/03\/13\/elon-musk-at-sxsw-a-i-is-mor...ook|makeit<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The billionaire tech entrepreneur called AI more dangerous than nuclear warheads and said there needs to be a regulatory body overseeing the development of super intelligence, speaking at the South by Southwest tech conference in Austin, Texas on Sunday. It is not the first time Musk has made frightening predictions about the potential of artificial [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":440,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,12,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-existential-risks","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/440"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}