Following Putin’s declaration that “whoever leads in AI will rule the world,” Elon Musk is sharing his thoughts on the next major war, suggesting it won’t be started by humans but through competition for AI superiority at the national level: some say that a country could be unexpectedly nuked one day just because a computer deemed it a potential threat after some casual calculation.



Elon Musk is predicting the future again, like he does. This time, the eccentric billionaire and CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, and others, took to Twitter to wax poetic about our pending demise at the hands of artificial intelligence (AI). World War 3, Musk believes, is most likely caused by the nerds programming recipes for your Amazon Echo. Let that sink in for a minute. I’m not saying being a dick to that guy in high school is going to lead to a robot uprising, but having a John Connor-esque plan to come back and save your past self might not be all that bad of an idea.

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