At a summit in London, the X owner’s dystopian warnings on AI came leavened with a vision of a future where nobody has to work.
| Any social media platform that is not charging all users at least a nominal fee by this time next year risks being swamped by AI-powered bots, X owner Elon Musk has warned.
“Somewhat inevitably, it leads to some small payment in order to dramatically increase the cost of a bot. Probably any social media platform that doesn’t do that will simply be overrun by bots.” “If you have an AI that has memory, and remembers all of your interactions, and you can give it permission to read anything you’ve ever done, it will really know you better than anyone, perhaps even yourself,” he said.
He proposed “a local sort of off-switch, where you perhaps say a key word or something and then that puts the robot into a safe state”. Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Defence Minister Richard Marles at the AI Safety Summit., which appeared to overcome their contrasting approaches to regulating AI. Countries including the US, China and the European Union agreed to manage the risks of cutting-edge AI in a collaborative fashion, so the tech would respect human rights but regulation would not stifle innovation.
A team of AI academics and expert advisers will conduct the study, led by Canadian computer scientist Yoshua Bengio and supported by a secretariat of British government officials.
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