"I'm increasingly inclined to thing there should be some regulatory oversight, maybe at the national and international level just to make sure that we don't do something very foolish."
http://www.cnet.com/news/elon-musk-we-are-summoning-the-demon-with-artificial-intelligence/#ftag=CAD590a51e
Dale Carrico mocks Musk:
http://amormundi.blogspot.com/2014/10/summoning-demon-robot-cultist-elon-musk.html
Of course, Elon Musk has built real companies which make real stuff. Even The Atlantic magazine admits that:
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/10/what-it-took-for-spacex-to-become-a-serious-space-company/381724/?single_page=true
Musk's accomplishments don't necessarily make him an expert on the demonology of AI's. But his track record suggests that he has a better informed and organized way of thinking about the potentials of technology than Carrico's.
Would I, epistemically speaking, be better off adopting the beliefs hold by all those who have recently voiced their worries about AI risks? If I did that then I would end up believing that I was living in a simulation, in a mathematical universe, and that within my lifetime, thanks to radical life extension, I could hope to rent ... (read more)