Axel Springer, the publisher of Business Insider and Politico, said on Wednesday it was partnering with OpenAI, which will pay the German media group to allow ChatGPT to summarize current articles in responses generated by the chatbot. "ChatGPT users around the world will receive summaries of selected global news content from Axel Springer's media brands," which also includes the German tabloid Bild, the two companies said in a statement. The chatbot's answers will include material otherwise kept behind a paywall and offer "links to the full articles for transparency and further information", they said. Axel Springer will be paid for making its content available to the US artificial intelligence firm, a spokesman for the media group told AFP. The deal is valid for several years and does not commit either side to exclusivity, leaving them free to sign new agreements, the spokesman said without giving more detail.

One of Europe's biggest media groups has warned journalists that artificial intelligence (AI) could steal their jobs, and has provided tips for how reporters can avoid the chop. The chief executive of Axel Springer -- which owns Insider, Politico and German tabloid newspaper Bild -- told employees in a memo Tuesday that "artificial Intelligence has the potential to make independent journalism better than it ever was -- or simply replace it." In the memo, shared with CNN, Mathias Döpfner predicts that AI will soon be able to aggregate information much better than humans, and urges newsrooms to place a greater emphasis on commentary, exclusive news and investigations that can't be done by machines. Journalists would still be needed to understand people's "true motives", he said. "In short, the creation of exclusive and attractive content remains irreplaceable and is going to become even more critical to success for publishers," Döpfner wrote.

Elon Musk is charismatic but also whimsical. Sometimes it's hard to know if Tesla's (TSLA) - Get Tesla Inc. Report chief executive officer is serious when he makes ostentatious claims and thunderous statements on Twitter, his favorite communication channel where he has more than 101.6 million followers as of time of writing. Is he provocative or simply ambitious when he announces that humans will be living and self-sufficient on Mars twenty to thirty years from now? "20 to 30 years from first human landing if launch rate growth is exponential," Musk said on July 15 to a question about the estimated timeframe for creating a self-sustaining civilization on Mars. "Assumes transferring 100k each rendezvous and 1M total people needed," the billionaire added. The history of outlandish claims by the richest man in the world has often shown that he really means what he says.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk revealed three "existential threats" he believes currently face humanity during a recent interview with Mathias Döpfner, the CEO of Insider's parent company, Axel Springer. The richest man in the world said he fears religious extremism, a declining birthrate, and "artificial intelligence going wrong." Death, however, did not make his list. "I spent a lot of time talking about the birthrate thing," Musk said. "That might be the single biggest threat to the future of human civilization."

In an interview with Mathias Döpfner, the CEO of Axel Springer, Business Insider's parent company, Elon Musk revealed his thoughts on self-driving cars, oversight of artificial intelligence, and reasons behind his quest to be buried on Mars. Musk, who had announced in October Tesla's release of a beta version of its long-awaited "full self-driving" software, clarified that he is "definitely not trying to take anyone's steering wheel away from them." "I'm just saying what will most likely occur, and I am certain about this, is that self-driving will become much safer than a human driver. Probably by a factor of 10," he told Döpfner, adding that the bar for whether a person will be able to drive or not will be much more "stringent" in the future when autonomous driving is "10 times safer." But as Business Insider's Graham Rapier reported, the top US safety regulator, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, has repeated that "no vehicle available for purchase today is capable of driving itself." "The most advanced vehicle technologies available for purchase today provide driver assistance and require a fully attentive human driver at all times performing the driving task and monitoring the surrounding environment. Abusing these technologies is, at a minimum, distracted driving. Every State in the Nation holds the driver responsible for the safe operation of the vehicle," the agency said.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk introduces the Model X. I think we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. If I had to guess at what our biggest existential threat is, it's probably that. So we need to be very careful with artificial intelligence...With artificial intelligence, we're summoning the demon. You know those stories where there's the guy with the pentagram, and the holy water, and he's like -- Yeah, he's sure he can control the demon?