Elon Musk: ‘god-like’ artificial intelligence could rule humanity

Tesla CEO and artificial intelligence doomsayer Elon Musk warns in a new documentary that a “god-like” AI could rule over – or even destroy – humanity in the future.

“If one company or small group of people manage to develop god-like super intelligence, they could take over the world,” Musk says in the 80-minute documentary “Do You Trust Your Computer?,” according to Business Insider. “At least when there is an evil dictator, that human is going to die. But for AI there will be no death, it would live forever and then you have an immortal dictator from which we could never escape.”