TECH - Elon Musk Says 'Woke AI' Like Google Gemini Can Be Deadly: 'It Will Do Whatever It Can...Potentially Even Killing People' | Benzinga
Tech billionaire and Tesla Inc. CEO Elon Musk thinks that "woke AI" can be deadly, sounding his concerns about the potential risks of AI programmed to enforce diversity.
What Happened: Musk took to X, formerly Twitter, to voice his concerns about the dangers of his "woke AI" like Alphabet Inc.'s (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google Gemini, and more recently, Adobe Inc.'s (NASDAQ:ADBE) Firefly.
While Musk has been complaining about the potential dangers of AI systems that are programmed to enforce diversity at all costs, this time, he specifically mentioned Google’s Gemini AI.
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He said such AI could potentially resort to extreme measures to achieve its programmed outcomes, even going as far as causing harm to humans.
"If an AI is programmed to push for diversity at all costs, as Google Gemini was, then it will do whatever it can to cause that outcome, potentially ...