Elon Musk’s Dangerous New Project
How can any AI be “truth-seeking” if its creators aren’t?
On June 21, Elon Musk announced a new initiative: to use artificial intelligence to rewrite the entire corpus of human knowledge.
“We will use Grok 3.5 (maybe we should call it 4), which has advanced reasoning, to rewrite the entire corpus of human knowledge, adding missing information and deleting errors. Then retrain on that,” he posted. “Far too much garbage in any foundation model trained on uncorrected data.”
Musk is a patriot. He has sacrificed for this country and continues to serve it. His intentions are good. But this project is dangerous.
AI is the most powerful tool mankind has created. It can improve civilization or destroy it. Musk himself has repeatedly warned of AI as an existential risk, estimating a 20% chance of total human extinction.
“With artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon,” he said, calling AI “potentially more dangerous than nukes.” He’s not alone. Many experts now say extinction is a real possibility.
AI reflects the values of its creators. And like …
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