What you need to know
- Billionaire Elon Musk recently predicted AI will be more intelligent than humans by the end of 2026, attributing his speculations to the large number of "the world's smartest people" transitioning to the sector to help boost its advances and development.
- Musk listed the lack of sufficient electricity to power AI advances and quality data to train chatbots as some of the challenges that might deter the attainment of superintelligence.
- Superintelligence could pose a significant threat to humanity without proper regulations and guardrails to govern it, with OpenAI Sam Altman having warned that there's no big red button to stop the progression of AI.
