Introducing OpenAI
&gt; <i>Musk: I think the best defense against the misuse of AI is to empower as many people as possible to have AI. If everyone has AI powers, then there’s not any one person or a small set of individuals who can have AI superpower.</i><p>In a sense, we have no other defense. AI is just math and code, and I know of no way to distinguish good linear algebra from evil linear algebra.<p>The barriers to putting that math and code together for AI, at least physically, are only slightly higher than writing &quot;Hello World.&quot; Certainly much lower than other possible existential threats, like nuclear weapons. Two people in a basement might make significant advances in AI research. So from the start, AI appears to be impossible to regulate. If an AGI is possible, then it is inevitable.<p>I happen to support the widespread use of AI, and see many potential benefits. (Disclosure: I&#x27;m part of an AI startup: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.skymind.io" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.skymind.io</a>) Thinking about AI is the cocaine of technologists; i.e. it makes them needlessly paranoid.<p>But if I adopt Elon&#x27;s caution toward the technology, then I&#x27;m not sure if I agree with his reasoning.<p>If he believes in the potential harm of AI, then supporting its widespread use doesn&#x27;t seem logical. If you take the quote above, and substitute the word &quot;guns&quot; for &quot;AI&quot;, you basically have the NRA, and the NRA is not making the world a safer place.