There is no doubt that the tycoon Elon Musk He is one of the people who will benefit the most after the victory of donald trump in the US presidential elections last week. The owner of X, SpaceX or Tesla invested more than 100 million in the Republican’s campaign, an investment that he has already more than recovered thanks to the rise in the value of his companies. And what’s left. It is even expected that he will touch power and occupy some position within the future Administration. Recently, the nonprofit artificial intelligence (AI) advocacy group Americans for Responsible Innovation (ARI) launched a petition asking Trump to appoint the South African as its special advisor on AI.
“No one is better prepared than Elon Musk to help the Trump administration put the United States as a leader in artificial intelligence,” ARI states in its petition. The organization highlights that Musk “has made important contributions to the field of AI as an entrepreneur and as an opinion leader.” They also draw attention to the fact that the businessman promotes the development of technology while emphasizing the importance of solutions being safe to “mitigate existential and catastrophic risks.”
Musk has been involved in the development of AI for years. The businessman was even part of the group of founders of OpenAI, the firm behind the ChatGPT chatbot, in 2015. The South African, however, left the startup a few years later due to disagreements with the rest of the board of directors.
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Indeed, as ARI’s petition states, Elon Musk has spoken on several occasions about the risks hidden in the development of artificial intelligence. He is not at all in favor of the use of technology to create autonomous weapons, capable of attacking human targets without the need for a person to be at the controls, giving orders. He has also filed a couple of lawsuits, the first of which he ended up withdrawing, against OpenAI, which he accuses of putting its own profits and commercial interests before the public good.
ARI also echoes a recent interview in which the executive stated that it was important for the new United States Government to create a regulatory body that had knowledge of what big technology companies are doing in terms of AI. Despite supporting the appointment of Musk to lead the country’s AI policies, the organization recognizes that mechanisms would have to be found to avoid “conflicts of interest, since the businessman, as we have said, has his own businesses related to artificial intelligence.” .
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