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Gates & Musk discuss AI

Published:
April 8, 2015
Author:
Max Tegmark

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Bill Gates and Elon Musk recently discussed the future of AI, and Bill said he shared Elon’s safety concerns. Regarding people dismissing AI concerns, he said “How can they not see what a huge challenge this is?”. We’re honored that he also referred to our new FLI research program on beneficial AI as “absolutely fantastic”. 🙂

Here’s the video and transcript.

This content was first published at futureoflife.org on April 8, 2015.

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