Twitter owner and African-American entrepreneur Elon Musk told Fox News’ Tucker Carlson that he wants to create a “truth-seeking” AI called “TruthGPT” that will not be trained to hide information or censor the truth, like many current AI products.
“It is more dangerous than mismanaged aircraft design or bad car production in the sense that it is non-trivial, it has the potential of a civilisational destruction,” Musk said of the rise of corporate-managed artificial intelligence.
According to Carlson, Musk has “been thinking about AI and worrying about it for most of his life,” and “Nearly a decade ago, he helped found a non-profit research project called OpenAI and the point was in the name – if we’re going to have artificial intelligence, it’s got to be open to the world, that would help ensure that it’s used for good and not evil.”
Musk noted that, ironically, AI systems have been set up to withhold information and censor viewpoints from a partisan perspective.
BREAKING: @ElonMusk discusses creating an alternative to OpenAI, TruthGPT, because it is being trained to be politically correct and to lie to people. pic.twitter.com/HTFnve9o6d
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“What’s happening is they’re training the AI to lie,” he said. “The most ironic is the most likely outcome it seems.”
“I’m going to start something which I call TruthGPT or a maximum truth-seeking AI that tries to understand the nature of the universe,” Musk told Carlson. “I think this might be the best path to safety in the sense that an AI that cares about understanding the universe, it is unlikely to annihilate humans because we are an interesting part of the universe.”
As Valiant News previously reported, Musk claimed that several United States federal government agencies had “full access” to Twitter users’ direct messages prior to his acquisition of the social media company.
“Various government agencies effectively had full access to everything that was going on Twitter. I was not aware of that,” Musk told Carlson.
“Did that include people’s DMs,” Carlson asked.
“Yes,” Musk replied.
