Elon Musk facing growing chorus of critics on 'evil' artificial intelligence

File photo: Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk smiles as he attends a forum on startups in Hong Kong, China January 26, 2016. Despite Elon Musk's continued warnings, evil machines won't take over the world, two experts said this week. Artificial intelligence (AI) could be destined to turn against humanity, Musk has argued. The tech exec, who in addition to running high-profile companies such as Tesla and SpaceX, is a co-founder of OpenAI, a non-profit AI research company "discovering and enacting the path to safe artificial general intelligence." However, other executives in Silicon Valley have taken issue with Musk's comments, including the leader of Google's artificial intelligence efforts. "I'm definitely not worried about the AI apocalypse," said Google's John Giannandrea, when speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt SF. "I just object to the hype and soundbites that some people are making," he added.