Elon Musk launches AI startup and warns of a ‘Terminator future’

Tesla boss claims ‘pro-humanity’ xAI offers realistic alternative to pausing development of superintelligence

Elon Musk has launched an artificial intelligence startup that will be “pro-humanity”, as he said the world needed to worry about the prospect of a “Terminator future” in order to avoid the most apocalyptic AI scenarios.

Musk said xAI would seek to build a system that would be safe because it was “maximally curious” about humanity rather than having moral guidelines programmed into it.

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