Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has apparently made a surprising shift in his stance on the potential impact of digital super-intelligence on humanity.
What Happened: On Thursday, Zero Gravity Corporation’s CEO Peter H. Diamandis shared a video on X, formerly Twitter, from Abundance Summit 2024, an event that was held between March 17 to 21.
The video showed Musk discussing whether digital super-intelligence is humanity’s greatest hope or fear.
In the video, Musk can be seen joining the event virtually and responding to the question, “With the advent of super-intelligence, it is actually very difficult to predict what will happen next.”
“So, I think there’s some chance that it will end humanity. I probably agree with Geoffrey Hinton, that it’s about, 10% or 20% or something like that. The probable positive scenario outweighs the negative scenario,” Musk added.
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