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Rachel Shin

Elon Musk wants to create a superintelligent A.I. because he thinks a smarter A.I. is less likely to wipe out humanity

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Elon Musk was a cofounder of OpenAI—the maker of the popular A.I. chatbot ChatGPT—before pulling out of the company due to conflicts with CEO Sam Altman and the board. Now he claims that his own A.I. venture, xAI, will rival OpenAI in achieving the lofty goal of artificial superintelligence.

In a nearly two hour-long Twitter Spaces talk on Friday, the world’s richest man discussed his company’s goal of creating an AGI (artificial general intelligence), meaning an A.I. that is at least as smart as a human. 

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