According to Elon Musk, Artificial Intelligence Will Cause World War III

Elon Musk's latest prediction about artificial intelligence isn't going to soothe your nerves. The entrepreneur, who's been known to speak in hyperbole from time to time (remember that his reasoning for getting to Mars is to save humanity), dreamed up another worst-case outcome for A.I.: causing World War III. Putin recently said that A.I. "is the future, not only for Russia, but for all humankind ... Whoever becomes the leader in this sphere will become the ruler of the world." Musk tweeted cryptically, "It begins." Musk went on to say the war could be started by the A.I. itself, possibly by an A.I. system launching an automated preemptive strike against one of its challengers.