Elon Musk: 5-10% Chance for Humanity to Survive Artificial Intelligence - Breitbart

The futurist and inventor believes that we have no more than "a five to 10 per cent chance" of successfully making artificial intelligence safe enough not to wipe out the human race. Musk seeks a proactive approach to what he sees as a potentially deadly worldwide AI crisis, which means that governments must become well-versed in the concepts before such understanding becomes a matter of life and death. "Normally the way regulations are set up is when a bunch of bad things happen, there's a public outcry, and after many years a regulatory agency is set up to regulate that industry," he said. That, in the past, has been bad but not something which represented a fundamental risk to the existence of civilization." And Musk is certain that approach will not work for artificially intelligent superweapons: "Once there is awareness, people will be extremely afraid, as they should be… By the time we are reactive in AI regulation, it'll be too late."