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Ego, Fear and Money: How the A.I. Fuse Was Lit (www.nytimes.com)
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[–] StereoTrespasser 4 points 1 year ago

Mr. Musk explained that his plan was to colonize Mars to escape overpopulation and other dangers on Earth. Dr. Hassabis replied that the plan would work — so long as superintelligent machines didn’t follow and destroy humanity on Mars, too.

Mr. Musk was speechless. He hadn’t thought about that particular danger. Mr. Musk soon invested in DeepMind alongside Mr. Thiel so he could be closer to the creation of this technology.

I can't believe these are grown men talking like this.