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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Dan Milmo Global technology editor

Elon Musk launches AI startup and warns of a ‘Terminator future’

People crowd below an AI sign at at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai, China, on 6 July 2023.
Elon Musk said the emergence of artificial general intelligence could lead to an ‘age of plenty’ or the possibility of a darker future. Photograph: Aly Song/Reuters

Elon Musk has launched an artificial intelligence startup that will be “pro-humanity”, as he said the world needed to worry about the prospect of a “Terminator future” in order to avoid the most apocalyptic AI scenarios.

Musk said xAI would seek to build a system that would be safe because it was “maximally curious” about humanity rather than having moral guidelines programmed into it.

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