Elon Musk: Advanced Artificial Intelligence Could Take Down the Web

Musk's tweets come at a time when a group of hackers used a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack to wipe out part of the internet on Oct. 21. This resulted in many sites like PayPal, Twitter, Netflix, and Spotify being unreachable and offline for hours. Authorities are of the view that a person or a group of people orchestrated the attack. Musk said that in the future massive DDoS attacks will not require real human hackers to create a ruckus on the infrastructure that runs the internet. With the improvement of artificial intelligence, Musk said that hackers will misuse it to optimize their attacks.