The futurist and inventor believes that we have no more than "a five to 10 per cent chance" of successfully making artificial intelligence safe enough not to wipe out the human race. Musk seeks a proactive approach to what he sees as a potentially deadly worldwide AI crisis, which means that governments must become well-versed in the concepts before such understanding becomes a matter of life and death. "Normally the way regulations are set up is when a bunch of bad things happen, there's a public outcry, and after many years a regulatory agency is set up to regulate that industry," he said. That, in the past, has been bad but not something which represented a fundamental risk to the existence of civilization." And Musk is certain that approach will not work for artificially intelligent superweapons: "Once there is awareness, people will be extremely afraid, as they should be… By the time we are reactive in AI regulation, it'll be too late."

Greg Ip, chief economics commentator at the Wall Street Journal, discusses how more advanced forms of artificial intelligence won't cause widespread disruption to the job market, as some tech experts fear.

Japan is one of the world's most advanced countries in the field of artificial intelligence and robot industries. At the Group of Seven summit Japan hosted in May, world leaders looked amused and fascinated as they watched a robot performing at the International Media Center. At the same time, because of the technological advances and advent of robots, the leaders are concerned that many people in their countries will lose their jobs and cry out for assistance from governments. This kind of downside to innovation has always been a part of modernization. Innovation brings fundamental change, but the impact of AI will be on a far larger scale than ever before. The most visible sector in which robots are bringing considerable change in Japan is the carmaker industry.