AI More Benefit Than Threat Despite Musk's Dark Warning

We expect scary predictions about the technological future from philosophers and science fiction writers, not famous technologists.

Elon Musk, though, turns out to have an imagination just as dark as that of Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick, who created the sentient and ultimately homicidal computer HAL 9000 in “2001: A Space Odyssey.”

Musk, the founder of Tesla, SpaceX, HyperLoop, Solar City and other companies, spoke to the National Governors Association last week on a variety of technology topics