The accelerated expansion of artificial intelligence It is generating a mixture of enthusiasm and concern in multiple sectors of society. While companies and governments celebrate the advances in automation, prediction of data or medical assistance, the uncertainty about the real impact that these technologies will have on employment, privacy and human decision making. Academic voices and technological leaders warn about the risk of deregulated development that could blur the ethical and legal limits that had so far guided scientific progress. Like Google Deepmind CEO, Demis Hassabis, who says that the progress of smart systems “It will be 10 times larger than the industrial revolution“
The lack of global consensus on how to regulate AI feeds an ambiguity scenario. In the short term, concern revolves around automated misinformation, algorithmic biases and military use of these systems; In the long term, more complex dilemmas emerge such as The possible loss of control over highly autonomous artificial entitiess. In this context, society faces the challenge of urgently defining not only what role artificial intelligence will play, but also what human values it wants to preserve in front of it. Therefore, given so much indecision with respect to the future, experts reach contradictory conclusions such as the one that concerns us today.
Because if someone controls the networks that weave what is behind artificial intelligence, and It even seems to control it so far, that’s Elon Musk. The founder of Spacex is aware of the inexorable destiny of technology and, once his political facet has been parked after the rupture of his idyll with Trump, he is determined to apply it in all areas he covers. However, from time to time, the possibilities of the proliferation of AI at years are known through its means.
Musk’s realistic prediction a decade ago
“We humans run the risk of become stupid domestic pets for artificial intelligence“He declared in 2016 as a prelude to what today happens to the domain of the screens. In fact, in this same year he proposed the entrance to a new path that combined human ingenuity with the technological opportunity.” I think one of the solutions that seems better is to add a layer of AI. Just as your cerebral cortex works in symbiosis with your limbic system, your third digital layer could work in symbiosis with you, “he said before carrying out this action in people with Neuralink. So, in this way, it is necessary to take into account their predictions. It is not going to be that within a decade they are fulfilled, such as the already mentioned.
Elon Musk’s contradictory statements
Therefore, one of the last public statements of the aforementioned generated some confusion among their followers for the complexity of what it mentions. Through the official account of the social network X, of which it owns as well, it enunciated the following prediction: “Obviously, the AI will destroy the human limbic system in one blow“. These words congenian with other predictions that have dropped other pioneer figures in the sector. Such is the case of Mo Gawdat, former leader of Google X, who said that” in 2049, the AI will be one billion times smarter than the human being. “
However, the contradiction comes with the second part of the statement. “That said, I predict, contrary to intuition, which will increase the birth rate. Remember what I tell you“, said the tycoon to record his appointment to clarify that” he will program it like that. ” What Musk confirmed with a resounding “yes.”