The contrary arguments of the two leading Silicon Valley Innovators over the opportunities and risks of AI

Jun 18, 2018News

On November 19, 2014, Mark Zuckerberg invited Elon Musk to have dinner at his home in Palo Alto, California with two other Facebook executives to have a discussion over artificial intelligence.

Earlier, Elon Musk, the CEO of Space X, Co-founder and product architect of Tesla, expressed his worry regarding the AI threat to humanity in interview and social media. “AI is potentially more dangerous than nukes”. He was afraid of the fact that “If we create machines that are smarter than humans, they could turn against us.”

According to a New York Times report, in the dinner hosted by Mr. Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook, the Facebook group attempted to convince Mr. Musk that his concern was wrong. Neither of the two CEOs would talk in detail about the discussion.

Artificial intelligence research can have great potential and implications but the debate over the future of AI has infiltrated the tech industry, with many influential people playing a part, such as the Microsoft founder Bill Gates, the late Stephen Hawking…

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