Elon Musk's AI predictions should terrify us

3 myrtlehinch 3 7/15/2025, 1:39:13 PM damianreilly.co.uk ↗

Comments (3)

JohnFen · 50s ago
Why should they? Musk's predictions have an extremely poor track record in terms of being accurate.
al2o3cr · 1m ago

    our species’ leading AI pioneer and very possibly its cleverest individual
Corollary of Poe's Law: any sufficiently-advanced glazing is indistinguishable from satire
Juliate · 3m ago
> leading AI pioneer

Citation needed.

> its cleverest individual

I am not sure the recent public displays of the quality of judgment of said individual are demonstrative of a particular high level of cleverness.

> "How do you derive fulfilment in life?’ Musk mused to Cruz. It’s a good question."

And he is quite the exemple of someone desperately looking for the answer...

> "and we’ve been planetary top dog, in terms of brains, for at least 50,000 of them"

From our (own limited) perspective, that is.

Fun read anyway. A fun question to add and discuss more often still, would be: if this type of AI takes over the world, what are the chances that those who are replaced (first) are the same rich/powerful ones that are funding its development and advent? What control do they have over it?