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Elon Musk: “If you program an AI to think that, like, misgendering is…”

Featuring: Elon Musk, Senior Advisor to the President, Head of Department of Government Efficiency | National

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oe Rogan Experience #2281 - Elon Musk - Part 2

Published | Video Starts at 44:10

And we're like, okay, we got a problem here, guys. And even Caitlyn Jenner said, no, definitely misgender me. That's way better than everyone dying. But If you program an AI to think that, like, misgendering is the worst thing that could possibly occur, then, well, it could do something totally crazy. Like, in order to ensure that there's no misgendering that can ever happen, we'll just annihilate all humans. That ensures the probability of misgendering is zero, because there's zero humans, which is logical. Yes. See, you gotta. (44:10–44:27)

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