Them's fightin' words: Musk hits back at Zuckerberg over AI comments

Tech billionaires Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg have entered into a public squabble about artificial intelligence in which Musk described the Facebook CEO's knowledge of the field as "limited". The groundwork for the world's nerdiest fight was laid by Musk, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO, earlier this month, when he pushed again for the proactive regulation of artificial intelligence because he believes it poses a "fundamental risk to the existence of civilization". Musk, who has been issuing warnings like these for years now, is concerned that humans will become second-class citizens in a future dominated by artificial intelligence – or that we'll face a Terminator-style robot uprising. Enter Zuckerberg, who on Sunday denounced these types of warnings as "pretty irresponsible". Zuckerberg made the comments while taking questions during a Facebook Live broadcast from his Palo Alto home. One viewer asked: "I watched a recent interview with Elon Musk and his largest fear for the future was AI.