Elon Musk: “It's not that we're guaranteed to have a positive future…”

“Well, there's some danger when you create a powerful technology, that a powerful technology can be potentially destructive. So there's obviously many AI dystopian novels and books, movies. So It's not that we're guaranteed to have a positive future with AI. I think we, we got to make sure that in my opinion it's very important that AI have pursuing truth as the most important thing. Don't force an AI to believe falsehoods.” (1:15:21–1:15:27)

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