Elon Musk: “If you program an AI and say like, like the only acceptable…”

“And people start fucking with it and it's like, okay, well now show me pictures of, you know, Nazi SS soldiers. And they're diverse women too. Yeah. Oh, isn't that awkward? You know, that's. But it's like the problem is If you program an AI and say like, like the only acceptable outcome is a diverse outcome and then, and that's like a mandate from the AI, then you could get into a situation where it says like, well, there's Too many white guys in power. We'll just execute them. Yeah. Yeah. Assuming that these things don't have empathy, which is why should they? They're going to do what they're programmed to do. Yeah.” (42:51–43:08)

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