Elon Musk will debate Alibaba founder Jack Ma at an artificial intelligence conference

The chief executive is headed to an artificial intelligence conference in Shanghai that kicks off on Thursday where he's set to face-off with Alibaba founder Jack Ma in what Bloomberg reports to be a "free-wheeling debate." "Conference-goers can look forward to featured speakers shedding light on the status quo of the industry and the potential impacts of artificial intelligence," a press release distributed by conference organizers says. Both leaders have been outspoken in their views on AI. Musk, who counts an AI company among his diverse portfolio of bets, has stressed the dangers of the nascent technology. "I'm really quite close, very close to the cutting edge in AI. It scares the hell out of me," Musk said at SXSW in 2018.