Elon Musk's quest to stop the 'AI apocalypse' by merging man with machines

If you can't beat them, join them. Or if you're Elon Musk, the billionaire boss of private rocket outfit SpaceX and electric vehicle firm Tesla, why not just become them? On Wednesday, the tech mogul unveiled plans to implant human brains with computer chips in an effort to merge man with machine, marking the start of a quest to prevent Silicon Valley's most feared scenario: society's demise at the hands of artificial intelligence. Musk has long sounded the alarm on AI, claiming that rapid advances in machine learning risk "summoning a demon" that leaves humans in the dust as super-intelligent systems out-manoeuvre our species at every task imaginable.