Elon Musk: AI is a bigger threat to humanity than North Korea

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Kim Jong-un is a pussy cat compared to the horrors that could be conjured up by AI, warns Elon Musk

Elon Musk has warned that artificial intelligence (AI) poses a significantly greater threat to humanity than North Korea. Serial entrepreneur Musk, whose OpenAI collective is working towards a m...

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