The founder and general director of SpaceX company Ilon Mask believes that artificial intelligence is much more dangerous than nuclear weapons. The businessman said this, speaking at the festival South by Southwest in Austin, Austin, Texas, reports LIGA with reference to The Guardian.

As Musk noted, he "does not sleep at night" the threat that "unregulated artificial intelligence" carries in him ".

"Remember my words: artificial intelligence is much more dangerous than nuclear weapons. So why do not we have regulatory oversight? " - he said.

According to the billionaire, the relevant "public regulatory body" should have access and oversight function to ensure that "every person develops artificial intelligence safely and with the benefit of humanity".

However, even work on security parameters in this issue contains "all sorts of insidious and unexpected risks," considers Mask.

"If the function of artificial intelligence is to make people as happy as possible, the supramental artificial intelligence can decide that the best way to do this is to capture all people and inject them into the brains of dopamine and serotonin (neurotransmitters that are called" hormones of happiness "- eds. ) ", - said the inventor.

Mask added that in fact digital intelligence should contribute to the expansion of "the freedom of action of mankind".