Elon Musk Says Even Benign A.I. Could "Have Quite a Bad Outcome"

Elon Musk has a well-documented fear of evil artificial intelligence, so it's no surprise filmmaker Werner Herzog sought him out for Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World. Instead, the tech mogul is worried about A.I. that does whatever it takes to accomplish its task. "The biggest risk is not that A.I. will develop a will of its own," Musk says in a short clip of the new film obtained by Fortune. "But rather it will follow the will of its utility function or optimization function." Herzog, the man who made Grizzly Man, is more attuned to nature than future technologies.