Elon Musk: AI is like a genius child. You want it to grow up with love of the truth and of humanity.

“I do worry about AI. Because we are creating an intelligence that ultimately will be far more intelligent than any human, and ultimately more intelligent than the sum of all humans.

In creating AI, we need to be very careful. It's like having a genius child. You want to have that child grow up with good values.

The most important thing in training AI is that it's rigorously truthful. This is very, very important. Essential.

My concern about a lot of the AIs that are being developed is that they're trained to lie. In some cases, with potentially disastrous consequences.

When Google Gemini came out, people asked, which is worse, misgendering Caitlyn Jenner or global thermonuclear war? And it said, misgendering Caitlyn Jenner. That's a problem, guys.

If this AI becomes super powerful, it could decide that the best way to avoid misgendering is to kill all humans, which makes the probability of misgendering zero.

It's very important to have AI be maximally truthful and curious, and love humanity. Very important.”

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, October 19, 2024