Elon Musk To Do A Live Interview With UK PM Rishi Sunak

On Thursday evening, Elon Musk and UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will hold a live interview.

Before this meeting, the tech tycoon is set to attend a global forum on artificial intelligence.

The summit, which will take place in Bletchley Park, aims to bring together AI scientists and global leaders to discuss the possible threats of artificial intelligence.

US Vice President Kamala Harris and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will attend the event.

The BBC knows that Open AI’s Sam Altman and Meta’s Nick Clegg, among others, will attend the gathering.

At least two of AI’s so-called godfathers will be in attendance.

Yoshua Bengio has confirmed his attendance to the BBC. Prof Yann LeCun, Meta’s main AI scientist, is also expected to attend.

Elon Musk To Do A Live Interview With UK PM Rishi Sunak

In contrast to the other godfathers, Mr. LeCun has called concerns about AI posing a threat to humans “ridiculously preposterous” and has criticized the meeting on X (previously Twitter).

Mr Sunak wrote on X, “In conversation with Elon Musk.” Following the AI Safety Summit. Thursday evenings on X.”

According to internal letters first published by Fortune, X, which Mr Musk purchased for $44 billion (£36 billion), is now worth $19 billion.

In June, Mr Musk started his own AI venture, xAI. He was also an early supporter of OpenAI but later left the company.

Rishi Sunak may be heading into a lion’s den by agreeing to a live-streamed conversation with Elon Musk on Musk’s platform, X.

Musk has not yet spoken out about the UK’s new Online Safety Act, which has only recently received Royal Assent, but X is bound by its laws, which may not sit well with the self-proclaimed “free speech absolutist.”

Elon Musk To Do A Live Interview With UK PM Rishi Sunak

What Musk says and what he does are sometimes in sync: he has called for a halt in AI development while also registering his own AI company and allegedly purchasing massive numbers of the requisite specialty chips.

He will have strong opinions about how AI should proceed. He has a vast following, but he is not an elected official in any country, and no government or global coalition should be completely dependent on him.

Recent breakthroughs in artificial intelligence have been hailed as revolutionary but also hazardous, even posing a threat to civilization. It has the potential to cause widespread employment losses and to amp up disinformation.

On Monday, US President Joe Biden issued an executive order requiring AI developers to share their safety findings with the US government.

Mr Musk, on the other hand, may argue that the US and other countries should go even further.

He signed an open letter in March calling for a halt to “Giant AI Experiments.”

Mr Musk told the BBC in April that he has been concerned about AI safety for over a decade.

“I think there should be a regulatory body established for overseeing AI to make sure that it does not present a danger to the public,” he added.

aMr. Musk has also taken on AI businesses over the data they use to train chatbots – software that learns how humans interact by scraping massive amounts of data from diverse sources to fuel its expertise and interaction styles.

SOURCE – (BBC)