Elon Musk’s dream of using the powerful technology for good is being dashed as a rival tycoon turns it into a money-machine
Elon Musk grabbed the title as the world’s most famous artificial intelligence doom-monger years ago. Creating super-intelligent machines was akin, he once said, to “summoning the demon” and presented the, “biggest existential threat” to the human race. So concerned was the Tesla billionaire that in 2015, when this threat still felt very theoretical, he and a few other billionaires scraped together $1 billion to create a nonprofit dedicated to saving humanity.
