Elon Musk launches AI startup and warns of a ‘Terminator future’

Tesla boss claims pro-humanity' xAI offers realistic alternative to pausing development of superintelligence

Elon Musk has launched an artificial intelligence startup that will be pro-humanity", as he said the world needed to worry about the prospect of a Terminator future" in order to avoid the most apocalyptic AI scenarios.

Musk said xAI would seek to build a system that would be safe because it was maximally curious" about humanity rather than having moral guidelines programmed into it.