{"id":317818,"date":"2017-07-18T04:58:54","date_gmt":"2017-07-18T03:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/elon-musk-regulate-artificial-inteligence-before-its-too-late\/"},"modified":"2017-07-18T04:58:54","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T03:58:54","slug":"elon-musk-regulate-artificial-inteligence-before-its-too-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/elon-musk-regulate-artificial-inteligence-before-its-too-late\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk: Regulate Artificial Inteligence \u2018Before It\u2019s Too Late\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAI is a fundamental risk to the existence of human civilization,\u201d Musk said<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mikael Thalen<\/strong><br \/>Prison Planet.com<br \/>July 17, 2017<\/p>\n<p>Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is once again calling for the regulation of artificial intelligence (AI), warning that \u201cby the time we are reactive in AI regulation, it\u2019s too late\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2C-A797y8dA?start=2883&amp;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>While speaking in Providence, Rhode Island, at the US National Governors Association summer meeting, Musk argued in support of preemptive action given the potential volatility of the burgeoning technology.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNormally the way regulations are set up is when a bunch of bad things happen, there\u2019s a public outcry, and after many years a regulatory agency is set up to regulate that industry,\u201d Musk said.<\/p>\n<p>The famed engineer and inventor even went as far as to label AI \u201ca fundamental risk to the existence of civilization.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt takes forever. That, in the past, has been bad but not something which represented a fundamental risk to the existence of civilization.\u201d<!-- [donotprint] --><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ppani\">\n<li>A d v e r t i s e m e n t<\/li>\n<li\/><\/ul>\n<p><!-- [\/donotprint] --><\/p>\n<p>Musk, who has repeatedly called AI a threat to humanity, says all his investments into the field are made with the developmental risk in mind.<\/p>\n<p>During an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2014\/oct\/27\/elon-musk-artificial-intelligence-ai-biggest-existential-threat\" target=\"_blank\">interview<\/a> at the AeroAstro Centennial Symposium in 2014, Musk argued that a careless approach to AI would be similar to \u201csummoning the demon.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon,\u201d Musk said. \u201cIn all those stories where there\u2019s the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, it\u2019s like \u2013 yeah, he\u2019s sure he can control the demon. Doesn\u2019t work out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. If I had to guess at what our biggest existential threat is, it\u2019s probably that. So we need to be very careful,\u201d Musk added. \u201cI\u2019m increasingly inclined to think that there should be some regulatory oversight, maybe at the national and international level, just to make sure that we&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/elon-musk-regulate-artificial-inteligence-before-its-too-late.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAI is a fundamental risk to the existence of human civilization,\u201d Musk said Mikael ThalenPrison Planet.comJuly 17, 2017 Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is once again calling for the regulation of artificial intelligence (AI), warning that \u201cby the time we are reactive in AI regulation, it\u2019s too late\u201d. While speaking in Providence, Rhode Island, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-317818","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}