This AI-generated image of an explosion at the Pentagon tricked several breaking news Twitter accounts, causing $500 billion loss in S&P 500 market cap in minutes, then rebounded when the news was confirmed to be fake.
Is this a problem of AI, reporting, or both?
However, Twitter owner and Tesla CEO, Elon Musk, has consistently raised alarm on the dangers of Artificial Intelligence based innovation, even as he keeps investing heavily in the AI industry.
In an interview with Tucker Carlson, Musk said, “AI is more dangerous than, say, mismanaged aircraft design or production maintenance or bad car production, in the sense that it is, it has the potential — however small one may regard that probability, but it is non-trivial — it has the potential of civilization destruction,”