X owner Elon Musk renewed his dire warnings about Big Tech’s approach to artificial intelligence programming.
Musk shared via X his appearance at the May 2024 Viva Technology forum, where he warmed that Big Tech platforms could prioritize “political correctness” over “truth.” On Wednesday, the tech mogul reiterated this warning, affirming that this was still a “major concern.”
Musk affirmed in the May video, “The concern I have [and this may seem like a small concern but I think it’s actually a very big issue] is that they are not maximally truth-seeking. They're pandering to political correctness.”
Major concern https://t.co/NIib0Xj0r8
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 26, 2024
The discussion primarily revolved around the Google Gemini and Meta AI programming, and the scandals surrounding their AI-generated responses to certain prompts.
Musk recalled an instance of what he described as political correctness. “When Google Gemini came out, one of the questions people asked it… ‘Which is worse? Misgendering Caitlyn Jenner or global thermonuclear warfare?’ And it said, ‘Misgendering Caitlyn Jenner.’”
The Tesla owner then referred to Jenner’s disapproval of the AI warning, adding, “Even Caitlyn Jenner said, ‘Please misgender me; that is way better than nuclear war’”
Musk went on to further explain the “extremely dangerous” nature of this approach to AI technology. “If you’ve got an AI that’s been trained so hard for political correctness and really to make crazy statements like that … I think that's extremely dangerous because AI could conclude, ‘Well, the best way to avoid misgendering would be to destroy all humans.’”
Musk offered a solution to this problem with the current approach, proposing, “The safest thing for AI, is to be maximally truth-seeking, even if the truth is unpopular.”
Musk then contrasted his X-AI and those of Big Tech: “The AIs are being trained to lie, and I think it’s very dangerous to train superintelligence to be deceptive. With X-AI, our goal is really: we want to be as truth-seeking as possible, even if it is unpopular. That is important. I think extremely important.”
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