Jack Ma saves us from Elon Musk's AI dystopia

Only one of them is what we might think of as a tech guy, and it's that difference that means the other is likely to be right. Musk, a physicist by training, is a well-known AI radical who sees the technology as a threat to the human race because, in his view, it will inevitably outsmart us and start running the world without heeding our needs. "The biggest mistake I see AI researchers making is assuming that they're intelligent," he said during a debate in Shanghai on Thursday. "They're not, compared to AI." He likened humanity to a bootloader – a small piece of software needed to turn on a computer.