A researcher backed by Elon Musk is re-sounding the alarm about AI's threat to humanity after finding no proof the tech can be controlled. Dr Roman V Yampolskiy, an AI safety expert, has received funding from the billionaire to study advanced intelligent systems that is the focus on his upcoming book'AI: Unexplainable, Unpredictable, Uncontrollable. The book examines how AI has the potential to dramatically reshape society, not always to our advantage, and has the'potential to cause an existential catastrophe.' Yampsolskiy, who is a professor at the University of Louisville, conducted an'examination of the scientific literature on AI' and concluded there is no proof that the tech could be stopped from going rogue. To fully control AI, he suggested that it needs to be modifiable with'undo' options, limitable, transparent, and easy to understand in human language.

Harry Shum (left), Microsoft AI and research group executive vice president, and Sam Altman, co-chair of OpenAI, will be working together on artificial intelligence. Microsoft has formed a partnership with OpenAI, an Elon Musk-based company, to research artificial intelligence. The two companies will focusing on "making significant contributions to advance the field of AI" and will work on their "mutual goal of using AI to tackle some of the world's most challenging problems," Microsoft said Tuesday in a blog post. Microsoft add that it is "committed to democratizing AI and making it accessible to everyone." AI is one of the hottest trends in tech right now, fueled by powerful chips, fast networks and the massive trail of data we all leave behind us as we go about our digital days.