If AI has a goal and humanity just happens to be in the way, it will destroy humanity as a matter of course without even thinking about it…It's just like, if we're building a road and an anthill just happens to be in the way, we don't hate ants, we're just building a road.

Artificial Intelligence (AI), is this term supposed to make us feel good about our future, or should we be worried? Let's get into the depths of it and find out for ourselves. Let's start with talking about how often we hear the term AI in our day to day lives. Smartphone manufacturers have made it a habit to boast about how their smartphones are so smart and come equipped with AI and all the things AI can do for us. As fascinating as this is, AI is meant to be much more than just suggesting what type of picture we are clicking on our smartphone and tweaking the settings to produce the best result.

Not only does millionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk have his fingers in a lot of different startup pies, he also has a lot of something else: opinions. It's well documented that Musk loves to share these opinions, however weird, through Twitter, sometimes going so far as to get into fights with various members of the public over city planning and the merits of public transport (he's not a fan). But every now and then Musk will express some of his better thought-out opinions through a different platform, such as via an interview or at a conference. This time, he was interviewed for a short documentary called Do You Trust This Computer? Given its name, you may have guessed the topic was the future of artificial intelligence.