Elon Musk: Humans Will Lose Control to AI in Ten Years

Artificial intelligence may surpass the combined intelligence of humans within five years, and humans may not continue to dominate this technology within ten years, according to Elon Musk.

Talking with The Economist editor-in-chief Zanny Minton Beddoes Thursday, the founder of xAI said that AI is on the way to surpass humans in almost every field of intelligence.

“There won’t be anything that AI can’t do better than humans, other than being human, maybe,” Musk said. “The result is an age of incredible abundance where anyone can have anything they can imagine. This may sound silly, but here we are in 2026. Let’s see where we are in 2036.”

The conversation is the latest example of Musk saying he believes AI will lead the way.many years“It will bring comfort as well attendance problems to people. However, Musk said he still believes advanced AI carries risks, but he sees no real way to slow its development.

“I don’t see any way to stop the speed of AI and robots,” he said. “Sometimes I think, maybe, even if there was a stop button, maybe we shouldn’t press it, because the consequences are too many for all.”

Instead, Musk suggested that major AI companies around the world should start holding regular meetings to discuss safety and security issues. He also suggested giving competing AI labs limited access to a certain type of border so they could identify dangerous potential before it was unleashed. If a company fails to deal with major risks, he said, governments can step in.

Despite his calls for AI leaders to work together, Musk also took time to criticize Sam Altman and his longtime partner. OpenAI update from a non-profit organization to a for-profit company, saying that it has strayed from its original mission.

“Well, I’m not a fan of Sam Altman because you started a non-profit that was supposed to be an open-source, global AI company, and it turned into an $800 billion profit company with closed source,” he said.

In May, a California federal judge ruled against Musk $150 billion The lawsuit against OpenAI, CEO Sam Altman, and co-founder Greg Brockman, finds the defendants not guilty on the grounds that they left the non-profit organization to turn to business. The decision ended one of Musk’s most serious legal challenges against the developer of ChatGPT.

Musk also said that Anthropic exists because of its co-founder Darius Amodei and his team no longer trusted OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, arguing that he would have stayed at OpenAI.

“I think Dario is a very reliable person. He cares about the future of the world, and I think that everyone I have met at Anthropic so far has had good intentions. No one has removed my negative light,” he said. “The road to hell is often paved with bad intentions, and there are a few stones with good intentions, so we don’t want to be complacent.”

While Musk praised Amodii’s leadership of Anthropic, critics including Sam Altman criticized the company. based on fear commercial to sell his Claude AI products.

While he disagreed with OpenAI’s leadership, he said competing AI companies should be willing to cooperate on security.

“At the end of the day, if we have to talk, we’re going to talk,” Musk said. “Put aside our personal differences for the good of the world.”