Elon Musk’s warning on the long-term future!
Recent warnings from Elon Musk
This is very serious. We are really in danger of getting to a point where we will be an existential threat to humanity. I don’t think many people realize how quickly AI could develop and take over. – Elon Musk at The National Governor’s Association Meeting.
For those unfamiliar with Elon Musk, he is an entrepreneur born in South Africa who immigrated to Canada at 17 and later became a US citizen. He co-founded companies such as Tesla Motors Inc., SpaceX and PayPal.However – despite his successes – he’s best known for making bold predictions regarding artificial intelligence. Recently warning: I think we should be very careful about artificial intelligence.
He is worried that human intelligence will be like a child competing against highly superior technological intelligence. As he put it: I think we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. If I had to guess what our biggest existential threat is, it’s probably that. So we need to be very careful with artificial intelligence.
I’m increasingly inclined to think that there should be some regulatory oversight, maybe at the national and international level, just to make sure that we don’t do something very foolish. With artificial intelligence we are summoning…something. You know those stories where there’s like The Devil and he gives you a wish and it’s like ‘The Devil is in here? OK,’ And if you’re not careful of how you word your wish or what you ask for then it will come true? Well, I think we should be careful with AI because with AI we are summoning …the Demon.
Advice from Elon Musk
I think that it is a very serious problem and deserves to be addressed. The more immediate danger would be something like a war in Korea or a terrorist attack using chemical weapons or nuclear weapons. That was Elon Musk talking about our future in an interview with CNBC back in 2013. It was around that time when he suggested we all start thinking about living on other planets if we want to be safe from artificial intelligence.
If he’s right and we don’t do something to stop AI from taking over then we could be in some serious trouble. His advice is to start preparing for life on other planets now. For instance, SpaceX is already working on spaceships that could take us there and make it possible for humans to live on different planets. Meanwhile Virgin Galactic is working towards space tourism so we can experience life on other planets before moving there permanently. It may seem far-fetched but Elon Musk isn’t kidding when he warns that our future survival depends on it! Consumers may not be aware of how much their privacy is at risk when they connect devices in their homes to their Wi-Fi network.
It’s not just that they don’t realise how easy it is for hackers to access their data; it’s also that they don’t understand what using smart devices might mean for their online security. Hackers can get into your home network through a variety of ways and see almost everything you do online if you use your Wi-Fi network without proper protection.
Elon Musk Quote: I think we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. If I had to guess at what our biggest existential threat is, it’s probably that… So we need to be very careful with artificial intelligence.
2023 Future Predictions
While speaking at a Tesla event in 2013, Elon Musk warned that humans need to become cyborgs. As we move into 2023 and beyond he makes an even bolder claim about what could happen if we don’t figure out how to turn ourselves into cyborgs. This is very serious. I think we are playing a strange game here with probabilities. There is certainly a possibility that … it will be like a few billion people with brain-computer interfaces as opposed to just one person… It’ll be much more likely that someone somewhere will say ‘I disagree with something you said. Let me shoot you up’ and there will be no way for me to do anything about it.
Elon musk’s warning-2022 – In an interview with CNBC in 2013, Elon Musk warned that humans need to become cyborgs to protect themselves from what he calls evil dictator A.I. As we move into 2023 and beyond he makes an even bolder claim about what could happen if we don’t figure out how to turn ourselves into cyborgs. With both brain implants and connecting computers directly to our brains, it would be possible for someone else who had enough computing power or data to monitor everything you see… hear… read….so there would be no privacy at all. You’d have no secrets from a sufficiently sophisticated computer.
Elon musk’s warning-2022 – The CEO of Tesla and SpaceX may be more correct than he realizes when he says we need to turn ourselves into cyborgs to prevent a global catastrophe. Recent advances in technology have already set off alarm bells about what could happen if these technological capabilities fall into the wrong hands. I would say there is a good chance that within a few decades artificial intelligence will reach a level where we [meaning humans] would actually be no match for them… Artificial intelligence will be able to do everything better than us.
A Different Perspective
these kinds to Elon musks, we’re probably screwed. A couple of years ago at an MIT AeroAstro Centennial Symposium presentation in 2014, Musk said that he expects humanity to go through a massive and nigh-apocalyptic upheaval some time not too far off in his lifetime. There certainly will be some number of civilization-ending events, he said. I don’t think Earth is forever or humanity is forever.
During that presentation, he gave what he called a warning, advising people to take a more responsible attitude toward their lives as technology and other aspects of life advance rapidly. If you get to Mars and find out there’s an Earth-like planet around some other star…are you going to move to that planet? Maybe. And once you do that what happens if there’s some sort of calamity that ends civilization on Earth? Do you have backups? It gets pretty serious if it’s ‘Oh s*it we gotta start over because otherwise, we might not be here.’ I think we should be more proactive about it. What do you think is gonna happen in 30 years with AI? That isn’t just Elon being an alarmist.
Musk is not alone in his alarm. Researchers have predicted that there’s a 5% chance of human extinction before 2100, just from self-inflicted actions that bring about human extinction. The Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University was started for exactly those reasons: to address these kinds of things. It’s actually had an impact in terms of getting people together to think about what do we do?
Conclusion
So what will Elon Musk be warning us about exactly? As we’ve previously reported, we’re all in trouble if we don’t get off fossil fuels by 2022. While that doesn’t give us much time to make massive changes to our energy consumption habits, his description of a fast-moving train and frighteningly negative outcomes is enough to make anyone realize that he means business. To think that one of tech’s most brilliant minds would warn us about something so bleak shows just how serious he believes things are becoming. The technology exists for renewable energy projects. The solution lies in our hands now; it’s up to us whether or not we’ll take it…even if it isn’t until 2022.
The warning echoes comments made by Tesla CEO Elon Musk back in April. As we reported at that time, Elon said that if [he] were just playing video games or watching TV, [he’d] have no reason to really care about sustainability. He went on to explain: [But] if humanity doesn’t make a pretty significant shift in the direction … we are going to end up with civilization falling and dying.
Now more than ever, world leaders and businesses need to embrace renewables. Recent comments by Elon Musk should inspire us all to redouble our efforts in pushing for a sustainable future. Yes, it’s becoming apparent that we’re in big trouble if we don’t change our ways…but there’s still plenty of time to turn things around. Although his warning is terrifyingly real, it’s not yet too late for us…if we can just stick together and solve these problems now. Please do your part by recycling where you can!
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