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Tony Owusu

Apple Co-Founder Has One Dire Warning About Tesla's Self-Driving AI

Former friends really do make the worst enemies. 

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak may have never counted Elon Musk as one of his friends personally, but he definitely was a former believer in Tesla (TSLA) and its self-driving ambitions. 

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But now, Wozniak is on a mission to warn people about just how crappy he believes Tesla's Auto Pilot self-driving system actually is. 

"Boy, if you want to study AI gone wrong, and making a lot of claims, and trying to kill you every chance it can, get a Tesla," Wozniak told CNN in an interview this week. 

This isn't the first time Wozniak has called out Tesla's self-driving AI. 

"A lot of honesty disappears when you look at Elon Musk and Tesla. They have robbed my family, myself and my wife, of so much money... with things they said that we really believed would be real," Wozniak has previously stated. 

Wozniak was a former booster of Tesla, dating back to 2016 when he says he spent a lot of money to upgrade his vehicle.

The upgrade placed a camera and a radar in the vehicle with Musk promising that the car would be able to drive itself across the country by the end of 2016.

Musk then said, according to Woz, that a new vehicle upgrade with eight cameras and even more sensors would allow the car to drive itself cross-country by the end of 2017. 

And since none of this ability has materialized to date, Wozniak has dedicated at least some of his camera time to reminding Musk about the promises he hasn't kept. 

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