Elon Musk Warns Jack Ma About Super-Intelligent A.I.: 'Famous Last Words'

Is super-smart A.I. going to overtake humans? The tech entrepreneur behind SpaceX and Tesla debated Jack Ma, co-founder of the Alibaba Group and estimated to be China's richest man, during an on-stage debate with Ma at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai on Thursday. Ma, praising the benefits of A.I., aimed to highlight how it could improve people's lives. He declared himself "quite optimistic" and said that "I don't think artificial intelligence is a threat." "People [that] worry a lot about this today are those people [that I call] 'college smartness'," Ma said.