
October 2014 - 'With artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon.' So we need to be very careful with the artificial intelligence.' If I were to guess like what our biggest existential threat is, it’s probably that. October 2014 - 'I think we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. Here is a comprehensive timeline of all Musk's premonitions, thoughts and warnings about AI, so far.Īugust 2014 - 'We need to be super careful with AI. The billionaire entrepreneur heads up SpaceX, Tesla and the Boring company.īut while he is on the forefront of creating AI technologies, he is also acutely aware of its dangers. Musk has been a long-standing, and very vocal, condemner of AI technology and the precautions humans should takeĮlon Musk is one of the most prominent names and faces in developing technologies. 'People put in heart monitors and things for epileptic seizures, deep brain simulation, artificial hips and knees that kind of thing,' he said, noting that 'it's well known what is cause for a rejection or not.' When asked about the risks involved with placing a foreign object in the body, Musk said there is 'a very low potential risk for rejection.'
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'If you got an interface into the motor cortex, and then an implant that's like a microcontroller near muscle groups you can then create a sort of a neural shunt that restores somebody who quadriplegic to full functionality, like they can walk around, be normal – maybe slightly better overtime,' Musk explained. Musk explained that the device is about one inch in diameter, similar to the face of a smart watch, and is implanted by removing a small chunk of the skull.Ī small robot connects the thread-like electrodes to certain areas of the brain, stitches up the hole and the only visible remains is a scar left behind from the incision. Neuralink, which was founded in 2016, is designing tiny flexible 'threads' that are ten times thinner than a human hair and can be inserted directly into the brain He also revealed that the technology could develop into a full brain interface in just 25 years, which would enable 'symbiosis' between humans and AI. Musk explained that the process involves removing a chunk of the skull, robots then insert electrodes into the brain and the device into the hole, with only a small scar left behind. In May, the tech tycoon spoke on Joe Rogan's podcast to discuss the birth of his child, along with how Neuralink is set to have a version of its brain implant ready 'within a year.'

How did a very small piece of the Universe start to think of itself as sentient?’ ‘The early universe was just a soup of quarks & leptons.

Everything we’ve ever sensed or thought has been electrical signals.’ Musk who is known to personally respond to his fans shared: ‘For sure. In May, the tech tycoon spoke on Joe Rogan's podcast to discuss the birth of his child, along with how Neuralink is set to have a version of its brain implant ready 'within a year'
