ELON MUSK BLASTS GOOGLE’S DEEPMIND, WARNS OF AI TAKING OVER THE WORLD

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk thinks artificial intelligence poses a threat to humanity and of the companies working on AI technology, he is most concerned by the Google-owned DeepMind project, he said in an interview with the New York Times. "The nature of the AI that they're building is one that crushes all humans at all games," he said. "It's basically the plotline in 'WarGames.'"

In the 1983 film "WarGames," starring Matthew Broderick, a supercomputer trained to test wartime scenarios is accidentally triggered to start a nuclear war, Ben Gilbert wrote for Business Insider on July 28, 2020.

Elon Musk has been sounding the alarm about the potentially dangerous, species-ending future of artificial intelligence for years. In 2016, the billionaire said human beings could become the equivalent of "house cats" to new AI overlords. He has since repeatedly called for regulation and caution when it comes to new AI technology.

But Musk wasn't just talking about old films when he compared DeepMind to "WarGames" — he also said AI could surpass human intelligence in the next five years, even if we don't see the impact of it immediately. "That doesn't mean that everything goes to hell in five years," he said. "It just means that things get unstable or weird."