Elon Musk nominated for 'luddite' of the year prize over artificial intelligence fears
by Emily Price in San Francisco from on (#YMJJ)
Washington thinktank claims SpaceX founder, Bill Gates and Stephen Hawking, are contributing to 'alarmist' concern about machine intelligence
It has been a remarkable year for Elon Musk, the CEO of the high-end electric car company Tesla and SpaceX, which on Monday announced that it had successfully launched and then returned a rocket to Earth.
His pioneering contribution towards cheaper, and less resource-intensive transportation means he is generally considered one of technology's most successful innovators. Yet Musk has just been labelled "a luddite" by a Washington-based policy thinktank the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, which shortlisted him for its annual Luddite Awards.
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