DAILY STAR
Elon Musk has repeatedly warned about the dangers of Artificial Intelligence, and in his latest comment on the powerful new technology he points out that humanity is in danger of becoming completely dependent on the machines.
“Even benign dependency on AI/Automation is dangerous to civilisation if taken so far that we eventually forget how the machines work” the SpaceX boss tweeted.
Musk recommended that his followers should read an early 20th Century science fiction story called the Machine Stops.
Musk recommended that his followers should read an early 20th Century science fiction story called the Machine Stops.
Written by E. M. Forster back in 1909, it tells the story of a far-future society that’s completely reliant on an advanced super-computer for all their daily needs and have almost come to worship it.
