CEO of SpaceX and Tesla Elon Musk, Wednesday predicted that future military clashes between countries capable of technology to mass-produce AI-controlled armed drones would simply be "the drone wars".
While criticising the technology in virtual participation at the Wall Street Journal's CEO Council Summit in London, Musk believed that AI is not necessary for anything we are doing, adding that the technology is a "double-edged sword".
The tech billionaire also stated that "if you have a genie that can grant you anything, that presents a danger," expecting governments around the world to "utilise AI to develop weapons before anything else".
"So just having more advanced weapons on the battlefield that
can react faster than any human could is really what AI is capable of,"
51-year-old former CEO of Twitter said.
"Any future wars between advanced countries or at least countries
with drone capability will be very much the drone wars."
Back in
March, the SpaceX owner was among the other tech leaders and CEOs urging the
world to halt the rapid advancement in AI development citing profound risks
to humanity and civilisation.
More than 1,000 people signed the
letter to half AI development for six months.
The letter came
after OpenAI, a San Francisco-based technology startup released its powerful
human-like chatbot ChatGPT-4, sparking a competition among the tech giants
to adopt AI technology.
Musk said: "One of the first places you need to be careful of
where AI is used is social media to manipulate public opinion."
CEO
Tesla Musk said about the US presidential election: "I think it's something
we need to be on the lookout for in the way of minimising the impact of AI
manipulation.
"We're certainly taking that seriously at Twitter
and I think we're putting in all the protections to detect large-scale
manipulation of the system."
Elon Musk is set to join Twitter Space with Florida Governor Ron
DeSantis, who will announce his bid for 2024 president Wednesday.
DeSantis is regarded as former President Donald Trump's leading
rival for the Republican nomination. The governor will be revealing his
future plans in an audio conversation with Musk.
