Elon Musk has called for a "regulatory structure" for artificial intelligence, after warning US senators that the emerging technology posed a risk to civilization. More than 20 tech and civil society leaders attended a closed-door Senate summit on Wednesday focused on artificial intelligence.
"When there's something that's potentially dangerous to the public, you want to have some oversight," Musk told reporters.
Musk, who is also CEO of Tesla Inc., told senators they should not worry about self-driving cars and instead focus on what he called deeper artificial intelligence, one person present said. Deep AI obviously refers to deep learning, a type of artificial intelligence that teaches computers to process data in a way that mimics the human brain.
In his off-the-cuff remarks, Musk specifically raised concerns about data centers that are so powerful and massive that they can be seen from space and have a level of intelligence that is currently difficult to comprehend.
Among the projects launched by Musk, the world's richest man, is an artificial intelligence company called xAI.
Musk said he didn't speak directly to Mark Zuckerberg at the summit but was open to a "cage match if he wanted to."