Elon Musk: We Should Fear a 'Terminator' Future

Sure, Elon Musk wants to make science fiction reality by building a city on Mars. But when it comes to other sci-fi scenarios — namely, a robot apocalypse — the founder of Tesla and SpaceX is much less optimistic

Musk revealed his fear of a robot uprising during an interview on CNBC on Tuesday while answering questions about his investment in an artificial intelligence research company called Vicarious

Vicarious describes its mission as creating "human-level intelligence in vision, language, and motor control", and is seen as being at the forefront of artificial intelligence research. "I like to just keep an eye on what's going on with artificial intelligence," said Musk on the reasoning behind his investment in the company. "I think there is a potentially dangerous outcome there." Read more...