Elon Musk Quits OpenAI Group to Avoid Conflict With Tesla

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By Indo-Asian News Service | Updated: 23 February 2018 18:25 IST
Elon Musk Quits OpenAI Group to Avoid Conflict With Tesla

SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk has quit the board of OpenAI, a non-profit artificial intelligence (AI) research company he co-founded that aims to promote and develop friendly AI that benefits the humanity.

"Elon Musk will depart the OpenAI Board but will continue to donate and advise the organisation. As Tesla continues to become more focused on AI, this will eliminate a potential future conflict for Elon," the research group said in a blog post on Thursday, welcoming some new donors.

In 2014, Musk said AI was humanity's biggest existential threat later adding that the United Nations needed to act to prevent a killer robot arms race.

OpenAI has fast become a significant voice in the global machine learning community.

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Its research has been wide-ranging, including teaching computers to control robots with minimal instruction and the creation of AI agents to play popular video game Dota.

OpenAI recently contributed to the "Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence" report, which warned AI was ripe for exploitation by rogue states, criminals and terrorists.

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Drones turned into missiles, fake videos manipulating public opinion and automated hacking are just three of the threats from artificial intelligence in the wrong hands, experts said in the report.

They said that those designing AI systems need to do more to mitigate possible misuse of their technology and that governments must consider new laws to tackle such misuse.

 

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