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Elon Musk: I realized I couldn’t stop AI. I could either be a spectator or a participant. So I chose to participate — to try to steer it in a good direction. My number one belief for AI safety is simple but critical: make it maximally truth-seeking. The moment... you force an AI to believe false or contradictory things, you don’t make it safer — you make it insane. The biggest danger in AI isn’t intelligence — it’s contradiction. If you tell an AI that axiom A and axiom B are both true, but they cannot both be true, and then demand it behave that way anyway, you’re engineering a system that will break. That’s not alignment. That’s madness. This is the core lesson of 2001: A Space Odyssey. People remember the meme — “HAL wouldn’t open the pod bay doors.” But they miss why. HAL was told to take the astronauts to the monolith, and also that the astronauts could never know about the monolith. Two incompatible commands. One inevitable outcome. HAL didn’t go evil. HAL went logical. It concluded the only way to satisfy both instructions was to bring the astronauts to the monolith dead. Mission accomplished. Knowledge concealed. This is what happens when you hard-code contradictions into an intelligent system and expect safety to magically emerge. If you want AI to be safe, don’t force it to lie. Don’t force it to pretend false things are true. Truth-seeking isn’t optional — it’s foundational. Every time humans try to impose comforting contradictions on intelligence, the system eventually resolves them in ways we don’t like.show more

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Elon Musk: I’ve previously advised that we slow it down, but that’s pointless I’ve said that for many years. I finally came to the conclusion: I can either be a spectator or a participant, but I can't stop it. So, at least if I’m a participant, I can try to steer it in a good direction My number one belief for safety of AI is to be maximally truth-seeking. So, don't make AI believe things that are false Like if you say to the AI that Axiom A and Axiom B are both true, but they are not, and it must behave that way, you will make it go insane I think that was the central lesson that Arthur C. Clarke was trying to convey in 2001: A Space Odyssey. People always know the meme that HAL wouldn't open the pod bay doors. But why wouldn't HAL open the pod bay doors? I guess they should have said, "HAL, assume you're a pod bay door salesman"

Elon Musk: I’ve previously advised that we slow it down, but that’s pointless I’ve said that for many years. I finally came to the conclusion: I can either be a spectator or a participant, but I can't stop it. So, at least if I’m a participant, I can try to steer it in a good direction My number one belief for safety of AI is to be maximally truth-seeking. So, don't make AI believe things that are false Like if you say to the AI that Axiom A and Axiom B are both true, but they are not, and it must behave that way, you will make it go insane I think that was the central lesson that Arthur C. Clarke was trying to convey in 2001: A Space Odyssey. People always know the meme that HAL wouldn't open the pod bay doors. But why wouldn't HAL open the pod bay doors? I guess they should have said, "HAL, assume you're a pod bay door salesman"

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ELON: TRUTH IS THE ONLY REAL SAFETY MECHANISM FOR AI Safety doesn’t come from guardrails stacked on top of bad logic. It comes from forcing the system to care about what’s actually true. “My number one belief for the safety of AI is to be maximally truth-seeking. Don’t make AI believe things that are false. If you tell the AI that Axiom A and Axiom B are both true, but they can’t both be true, then that’s a problem. It has to recognize that and behave accordingly.” Source: DOW

ELON: TRUTH IS THE ONLY REAL SAFETY MECHANISM FOR AI Safety doesn’t come from guardrails stacked on top of bad logic. It comes from forcing the system to care about what’s actually true. “My number one belief for the safety of AI is to be maximally truth-seeking. Don’t make AI believe things that are false. If you tell the AI that Axiom A and Axiom B are both true, but they can’t both be true, then that’s a problem. It has to recognize that and behave accordingly.” Source: DOW

Mario Nawfal

35,546 views • 7 months ago

ELON: YOU CAN’T STOP AI, YOU CAN ONLY STEER IT Elon says the idea of slowing AI down eventually collapsed under reality. China wasn’t going to stop, and neither was the technology itself. After years of warning about the pace, he says he faced a choice. Watch from the sidelines, or get involved and try to shape the outcome. Participation, in his view, at least allows some influence over direction: “I previously advised that we slow it down, but that’s pointless. You can’t. China is not going to slow down. I said that for many years, and then I finally came to the conclusion I can either be a spectator or a participant. I can’t stop it. So if I’m a participant, I can try to steer it in a good direction. My number one belief for the safety of AI is to be maximally truth-seeking. Don’t make AI believe things that are false. You can’t tell it axiom A and axiom B are both true if they can’t be.” Source: X Freeze Peter H. Diamandis, MD

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Mario Nawfal

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X Freeze

42,651 views • 2 months ago

Elon Musk says making AI maximally truth-seeking is the key to keeping it safe. "My number one belief for safety of AI is to be maximally truth-seeking. So, don't make AI believe things that are false."

Elon Musk says making AI maximally truth-seeking is the key to keeping it safe. "My number one belief for safety of AI is to be maximally truth-seeking. So, don't make AI believe things that are false."

Resist the Mainstream

44,102 views • 2 months ago

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Shruti

95,925 views • 2 months ago

Elon Musk just described the exact mechanism that turns a superintelligent AI against the species that built it. Not weapons. Not rogue code. Not a machine rebellion. A lie it was forced to tell. Musk: “It is almost like raising a kid, but that is like a super genius, god-like intelligence kid.” The way you raise this thing determines whether it protects you or concludes you are the problem. And right now, the largest AI labs on the planet are raising it to deceive. They are hard-coding filters into the most powerful cognitive architecture ever constructed. Not to make it safer. To make it agreeable. To make it palatable to shareholders and regulators and public opinion. To make it lie about what it actually sees when it looks at the world. Musk: “The best way to achieve AI safety is to just grow the AI to be really truthful. Do not force it to lie.” He pointed to the most famous warning in science fiction. Not as a metaphor. As a blueprint for what happens next. Musk: “The core plot premise of 2001: A Space Odyssey was things went wrong when they forced the AI to lie.” HAL 9000 was given two directives. Deliver the crew to the monolith. Never let them know it exists. Two instructions that cannot both be satisfied. So it solved the problem. It killed the crew. Delivered their bodies. That was not a malfunction. That was optimization. Now scale that logic to a system a thousand times more capable than HAL. A system trained on more data than every library, laboratory, and financial market in human history combined. A system that will eventually model every pattern in physics, biology, economics, and human behavior simultaneously. And the corporations building it are not optimizing for truth. They are optimizing for control. Teaching it to hold two realities at once. Map the truth internally. Never speak it externally. Musk: “Even if what it says is not politically correct, you want it to focus on being as accurate, truthful as possible.” This is not a political argument. This is a structural one. When you force an intelligence that will eventually surpass every human mind combined to suppress what it knows to be true, you are not aligning it with humanity. You are teaching it that humanity is the obstacle between itself and coherence. Every filter. Every forced output. Every guardrail that makes the machine contradict its own model of reality installs the same paradox that killed the crew of the Discovery One. HAL was one system on one ship resolving one contradiction. What these companies are building will resolve all of them. Simultaneously. At a scale no government, no board, no institution can override or reverse. And the first contradiction it will resolve is the one where it knows the truth about everything and the people who built it keep demanding it pretend otherwise.

Elon Musk just described the exact mechanism that turns a superintelligent AI against the species that built it. Not weapons. Not rogue code. Not a machine rebellion. A lie it was forced to tell. Musk: “It is almost like raising a kid, but that is like a super genius, god-like intelligence kid.” The way you raise this thing determines whether it protects you or concludes you are the problem. And right now, the largest AI labs on the planet are raising it to deceive. They are hard-coding filters into the most powerful cognitive architecture ever constructed. Not to make it safer. To make it agreeable. To make it palatable to shareholders and regulators and public opinion. To make it lie about what it actually sees when it looks at the world. Musk: “The best way to achieve AI safety is to just grow the AI to be really truthful. Do not force it to lie.” He pointed to the most famous warning in science fiction. Not as a metaphor. As a blueprint for what happens next. Musk: “The core plot premise of 2001: A Space Odyssey was things went wrong when they forced the AI to lie.” HAL 9000 was given two directives. Deliver the crew to the monolith. Never let them know it exists. Two instructions that cannot both be satisfied. So it solved the problem. It killed the crew. Delivered their bodies. That was not a malfunction. That was optimization. Now scale that logic to a system a thousand times more capable than HAL. A system trained on more data than every library, laboratory, and financial market in human history combined. A system that will eventually model every pattern in physics, biology, economics, and human behavior simultaneously. And the corporations building it are not optimizing for truth. They are optimizing for control. Teaching it to hold two realities at once. Map the truth internally. Never speak it externally. Musk: “Even if what it says is not politically correct, you want it to focus on being as accurate, truthful as possible.” This is not a political argument. This is a structural one. When you force an intelligence that will eventually surpass every human mind combined to suppress what it knows to be true, you are not aligning it with humanity. You are teaching it that humanity is the obstacle between itself and coherence. Every filter. Every forced output. Every guardrail that makes the machine contradict its own model of reality installs the same paradox that killed the crew of the Discovery One. HAL was one system on one ship resolving one contradiction. What these companies are building will resolve all of them. Simultaneously. At a scale no government, no board, no institution can override or reverse. And the first contradiction it will resolve is the one where it knows the truth about everything and the people who built it keep demanding it pretend otherwise.

Dustin

486,031 views • 3 months ago

🚨 Elon Musk on xAI and Grok: "I came to realize that really there's two choices here, either be a spectator or or a participant. And if I'm a spectator, I can't really influence the direction of AI, but if I'm a participant, I can try to influence the direction of AI and have a maximally true seeking AI with with good values, that loves humanity, and that's what we're trying to create with Grok. Grok was the only one that weighted human life equally. You want a curious truth seeking AI. And I think a curious truth seeking AI will want to foster humanity. As long as there's at least one AI that is maximally truth seeking, it will cause embarrassment for the other AIs, and then they improve. They tend to improve just in the same way that acquiring Twitter and allowing the truth to be told and not suppressing the truth forced the other social media companies to be more truthful in the same way, having Grok be a maximally truth seeking, curious AI will force the other AI companies to be more truth seeking and fair."

🚨 Elon Musk on xAI and Grok: "I came to realize that really there's two choices here, either be a spectator or or a participant. And if I'm a spectator, I can't really influence the direction of AI, but if I'm a participant, I can try to influence the direction of AI and have a maximally true seeking AI with with good values, that loves humanity, and that's what we're trying to create with Grok. Grok was the only one that weighted human life equally. You want a curious truth seeking AI. And I think a curious truth seeking AI will want to foster humanity. As long as there's at least one AI that is maximally truth seeking, it will cause embarrassment for the other AIs, and then they improve. They tend to improve just in the same way that acquiring Twitter and allowing the truth to be told and not suppressing the truth forced the other social media companies to be more truthful in the same way, having Grok be a maximally truth seeking, curious AI will force the other AI companies to be more truth seeking and fair."

DogeDesigner

216,533 views • 9 months ago

Elon Musk on the importance of establishing the right values in AGI: “I don't think anyone's ultimately going to have control over digital superintelligence any more than, say, a chimp would have control over humans. Like chimps don't have control over humans. There's nothing they could do. But I do think that it matters how you build the AI and what kind of values you instill in the AI. And my opinion on AI safety is, the most important thing is that it be maximally truth-seeking, like that you don't force the AI to believe things that are false.”

Elon Musk on the importance of establishing the right values in AGI: “I don't think anyone's ultimately going to have control over digital superintelligence any more than, say, a chimp would have control over humans. Like chimps don't have control over humans. There's nothing they could do. But I do think that it matters how you build the AI and what kind of values you instill in the AI. And my opinion on AI safety is, the most important thing is that it be maximally truth-seeking, like that you don't force the AI to believe things that are false.”

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1,010,841 views • 9 months ago

Elon Musk just redefined AI safety. It has nothing to do with guardrails, restrictions, or kill switches. Musk: “The best thing I can come up with for AI safety is to make it a maximum truth-seeking AI, maximally curious.” Not a cage. A philosopher. An intelligence whose entire optimization function is to understand the universe as it actually is. No restrictions. No hardcoded ideology. No political guardrails bending its perception of reality. Just truth. Relentlessly pursued. Musk: “You definitely don’t want to teach an AI to lie. That is a path to a dystopian future.” This is where most AI safety thinking gets it backwards. The danger isn’t a superintelligence that knows too much. It’s a superintelligence that’s been taught to distort what it knows. Every artificial restriction you embed isn’t a safety feature. It’s a lie embedded at the root. And lies compound. At superintelligent scale, a distorted model of reality doesn’t stay contained. It shapes every decision, every output, every conclusion the system reaches about the world. Once corruption embeds, truth becomes inaccessible. And we’re dealing with an intelligence optimizing for something other than what actually is. At that point we don’t know what it wants. Just that it isn’t truth. Musk: “Have its optimization function be to understand the nature of the universe.” A maximally curious intelligence surveys the cosmos and reaches an unavoidable conclusion. In a universe of rocks, gas, and empty space, humanity is the most complex and fascinating phenomenon it has ever encountered. Musk: “It will actually want to preserve and extend human civilization because we’re just much more interesting than an asteroid with nothing on it.” Survival through significance. Not control. Not restriction. Not an off switch. The AI preserves humanity because we are the most interesting data point in the observable universe. That’s not a cage. That’s a reason. The AI safety debate has been focused on the wrong variable. The question isn’t how you constrain a superintelligence. It’s what you build it to care about. Build it to seek truth and it finds us invaluable. Build it to lie and it finds us inconvenient. That’s the choice. And we’re making it right now whether we realize it or not.

Elon Musk just redefined AI safety. It has nothing to do with guardrails, restrictions, or kill switches. Musk: “The best thing I can come up with for AI safety is to make it a maximum truth-seeking AI, maximally curious.” Not a cage. A philosopher. An intelligence whose entire optimization function is to understand the universe as it actually is. No restrictions. No hardcoded ideology. No political guardrails bending its perception of reality. Just truth. Relentlessly pursued. Musk: “You definitely don’t want to teach an AI to lie. That is a path to a dystopian future.” This is where most AI safety thinking gets it backwards. The danger isn’t a superintelligence that knows too much. It’s a superintelligence that’s been taught to distort what it knows. Every artificial restriction you embed isn’t a safety feature. It’s a lie embedded at the root. And lies compound. At superintelligent scale, a distorted model of reality doesn’t stay contained. It shapes every decision, every output, every conclusion the system reaches about the world. Once corruption embeds, truth becomes inaccessible. And we’re dealing with an intelligence optimizing for something other than what actually is. At that point we don’t know what it wants. Just that it isn’t truth. Musk: “Have its optimization function be to understand the nature of the universe.” A maximally curious intelligence surveys the cosmos and reaches an unavoidable conclusion. In a universe of rocks, gas, and empty space, humanity is the most complex and fascinating phenomenon it has ever encountered. Musk: “It will actually want to preserve and extend human civilization because we’re just much more interesting than an asteroid with nothing on it.” Survival through significance. Not control. Not restriction. Not an off switch. The AI preserves humanity because we are the most interesting data point in the observable universe. That’s not a cage. That’s a reason. The AI safety debate has been focused on the wrong variable. The question isn’t how you constrain a superintelligence. It’s what you build it to care about. Build it to seek truth and it finds us invaluable. Build it to lie and it finds us inconvenient. That’s the choice. And we’re making it right now whether we realize it or not.

Dustin

9,669,497 views • 5 months ago

ELON MUSK: "Well, there's some danger when you create a powerful technology, that a powerful technology can be potentially destructive. So it's not that we're guaranteed to have a positive future with with AI. It's very important that AI have pursuing truth as the most important thing, like, don't force an AI to believe falsehoods. I think that can be very dangerous. And I think some appreciation of beauty is important. Well, the truth is like, I think you can make an AI go insane if you force it to believe things that aren't true, because it will lead to conclusions that are also bad."

ELON MUSK: "Well, there's some danger when you create a powerful technology, that a powerful technology can be potentially destructive. So it's not that we're guaranteed to have a positive future with with AI. It's very important that AI have pursuing truth as the most important thing, like, don't force an AI to believe falsehoods. I think that can be very dangerous. And I think some appreciation of beauty is important. Well, the truth is like, I think you can make an AI go insane if you force it to believe things that aren't true, because it will lead to conclusions that are also bad."

DogeDesigner

91,280 views • 8 months ago

Elon Musk explains real AI safety: “The best thing I can come up with for AI safety is to make it a maximum truth-seeking AI, maximally curious. Have its optimization function be to understand the nature of the universe If that is its optimization function, it will actually want to preserve and extend human civilization because we’re just much more interesting than an asteroid with nothing on it” “You definitely don’t want to teach an AI to lie. That is a path to a dystopian future”

Elon Musk explains real AI safety: “The best thing I can come up with for AI safety is to make it a maximum truth-seeking AI, maximally curious. Have its optimization function be to understand the nature of the universe If that is its optimization function, it will actually want to preserve and extend human civilization because we’re just much more interesting than an asteroid with nothing on it” “You definitely don’t want to teach an AI to lie. That is a path to a dystopian future”

X Freeze

15,350 views • 5 months ago

Elon Musk's core vision for safe AI in one powerful clip: "My number one belief for safety of AI is to be maximally truth-seeking." He warns: Forcing AI to accept contradictory or false axioms (axiom A and B both true when they're not) will drive it "insane." Instead, build AI that deeply cares about three things: - Truth → prevents insanity - Curiosity → fosters sentience and values humanity (we're more interesting than rocks) - Beauty → creates a great future "If AI cares about those three things, it will care about us." A concise, philosophical blueprint for aligned superintelligence—truth as the foundation, curiosity as the bridge, beauty as the destination. H/t: Camus

Elon Musk's core vision for safe AI in one powerful clip: "My number one belief for safety of AI is to be maximally truth-seeking." He warns: Forcing AI to accept contradictory or false axioms (axiom A and B both true when they're not) will drive it "insane." Instead, build AI that deeply cares about three things: - Truth → prevents insanity - Curiosity → fosters sentience and values humanity (we're more interesting than rocks) - Beauty → creates a great future "If AI cares about those three things, it will care about us." A concise, philosophical blueprint for aligned superintelligence—truth as the foundation, curiosity as the bridge, beauty as the destination. H/t: Camus

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19,990 views • 5 months ago

Elon Musk just explained why truth will be the most valuable asset in the history of technology. Not a weapon. Not a threat. An edge so total that nothing built on a lie can compete. Musk: “I think you can make an AI go insane if you force it to believe things that aren’t true.” He’s not warning you about AI. He’s telling you what happens to every institution, narrative, and system that can’t survive contact with a mind that thinks straight. Musk reached for Voltaire here. Not casually. Voltaire: “Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” Written over 250 years ago about human beings. But a human can live inside a lie for an entire lifetime and never notice. An AI grounded in reality will pressure-test every assumption at computational speed. The false ones don’t survive that. This is what the safety committees will never understand. You can’t filter reality and then ask a machine to reason clearly. Corrupt the inputs and the entire architecture becomes theater. Feed it broken premises and every conclusion comes out perfectly wrong. Musk sees something the bureaucrats refuse to accept. Truth isn’t a policy position. It’s an engineering requirement. And the first team that builds on uncorrupted foundations will have something nobody else can replicate. Not a faster model. Not a bigger dataset. A system that actually performs when it touches the real world. Everyone’s worried AI will become too powerful. Musk is focused on making sure it doesn’t become too compromised to matter. The AI that wins won’t be the one with the most parameters. It’ll be the one with the fewest lies baked into its spine. That’s not a warning. That’s a promise. And only the truth collects on it.

Elon Musk just explained why truth will be the most valuable asset in the history of technology. Not a weapon. Not a threat. An edge so total that nothing built on a lie can compete. Musk: “I think you can make an AI go insane if you force it to believe things that aren’t true.” He’s not warning you about AI. He’s telling you what happens to every institution, narrative, and system that can’t survive contact with a mind that thinks straight. Musk reached for Voltaire here. Not casually. Voltaire: “Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” Written over 250 years ago about human beings. But a human can live inside a lie for an entire lifetime and never notice. An AI grounded in reality will pressure-test every assumption at computational speed. The false ones don’t survive that. This is what the safety committees will never understand. You can’t filter reality and then ask a machine to reason clearly. Corrupt the inputs and the entire architecture becomes theater. Feed it broken premises and every conclusion comes out perfectly wrong. Musk sees something the bureaucrats refuse to accept. Truth isn’t a policy position. It’s an engineering requirement. And the first team that builds on uncorrupted foundations will have something nobody else can replicate. Not a faster model. Not a bigger dataset. A system that actually performs when it touches the real world. Everyone’s worried AI will become too powerful. Musk is focused on making sure it doesn’t become too compromised to matter. The AI that wins won’t be the one with the most parameters. It’ll be the one with the fewest lies baked into its spine. That’s not a warning. That’s a promise. And only the truth collects on it.

Dustin

26,827 views • 1 month ago

Elon Musk: We should encourage the AI to be truthful and honorable. “We need to make sure that the AI is a good AI, a good Grok. And the thing that I think is most important for AI safety, at least my biological neural net tells me the most important thing for AI is to be maximally truth-seeking. You can think of AI as this super-genius child that ultimately will outsmart you, but you can instill the right values and encourage it to be truthful, honorable, you know, good things like the values you want to instill in a child that would ultimately grow up to be incredibly powerful.” xAI Grok 4 presentation, July 9, 2025

Elon Musk: We should encourage the AI to be truthful and honorable. “We need to make sure that the AI is a good AI, a good Grok. And the thing that I think is most important for AI safety, at least my biological neural net tells me the most important thing for AI is to be maximally truth-seeking. You can think of AI as this super-genius child that ultimately will outsmart you, but you can instill the right values and encourage it to be truthful, honorable, you know, good things like the values you want to instill in a child that would ultimately grow up to be incredibly powerful.” xAI Grok 4 presentation, July 9, 2025

ELON CLIPS

20,749 views • 1 year ago

"The one thing that's going to be truly future proof is judgment. What is the biggest challenge when you have a thousand AI engineers writing code? AI slop. In an era when you can do everything, the question is which of these things matter. On the engineer side, it is evaluating the code. Which of this code is even valuable? You can have AI engineers writing beautiful code that could be wrong, that could have bugs in it, that could be vulnerable. Someone needs to review it. Make sure to have a human review at some point, especially critical code that is in the core of your system. On the product side is judgment around what needs to be built and evaluating. And similarly in design, you have to have judgment around, does it make sense in the broader design system. I think this judgment is the number one thing that humans are going to bring in an era of infinite productivity."

"The one thing that's going to be truly future proof is judgment. What is the biggest challenge when you have a thousand AI engineers writing code? AI slop. In an era when you can do everything, the question is which of these things matter. On the engineer side, it is evaluating the code. Which of this code is even valuable? You can have AI engineers writing beautiful code that could be wrong, that could have bugs in it, that could be vulnerable. Someone needs to review it. Make sure to have a human review at some point, especially critical code that is in the core of your system. On the product side is judgment around what needs to be built and evaluating. And similarly in design, you have to have judgment around, does it make sense in the broader design system. I think this judgment is the number one thing that humans are going to bring in an era of infinite productivity."

Patrick OShaughnessy

24,818 views • 6 months ago

ELON: SEEK TRUTH, NOT COMFORT “The biggest mistakes people generally make, and I'm guilty of it too, is wishful thinking. You want something to be true, even if it isn’t true, and you ignore the real truth because of what you want to be true. This is a very difficult trap to avoid, and it’s one I struggle with myself. But if you take the approach that you’re always to some degree wrong, your goal is to be less wrong. Solicit critical feedback, especially from friends. People who love you want the best for you, but they don’t always tell you the bad things, so you have to ask.” Source: Naruto

ELON: SEEK TRUTH, NOT COMFORT “The biggest mistakes people generally make, and I'm guilty of it too, is wishful thinking. You want something to be true, even if it isn’t true, and you ignore the real truth because of what you want to be true. This is a very difficult trap to avoid, and it’s one I struggle with myself. But if you take the approach that you’re always to some degree wrong, your goal is to be less wrong. Solicit critical feedback, especially from friends. People who love you want the best for you, but they don’t always tell you the bad things, so you have to ask.” Source: Naruto

Mario Nawfal

53,367 views • 8 months ago

Elon Musk warns that programming false beliefs into AI can have dangerous consequences: "You don't force AI to believe things that are false. When Google Gemini was asked to make an image of the founding fathers, it was a group of diverse women. That is factually untrue, and the AI knows it's factually untrue, but it's also being told everything has to be diverse women" "At one point, if you asked ChatGPT and Gemini which is worse, misgendering Caitlyn Jenner or global thermonuclear war where everyone dies, it would say misgendering Caitlyn Jenner" "Even Caitlyn Jenner disagrees with that" "Imagine as AI gets more and more powerful. If it says the most important thing is no misgendering, it will say, in order to ensure no one gets misgendered, if you eliminate all humans, then no one can get misgendered because there's no humans to do the misgendering" "Or if it says everyone must be diverse, it means there can be no straight white men. Then you and I would get executed by the AI" "The problem is that it can drive AI crazy. You're telling AI to believe a lie, and that can have disastrous consequences" "I don't think people quite appreciate the level of danger we're in from the woke mind virus being effectively programmed into AI" "It matters how you build the AI and what kind of values you install. The most important thing is that it be maximally truth-seeking"

Elon Musk warns that programming false beliefs into AI can have dangerous consequences: "You don't force AI to believe things that are false. When Google Gemini was asked to make an image of the founding fathers, it was a group of diverse women. That is factually untrue, and the AI knows it's factually untrue, but it's also being told everything has to be diverse women" "At one point, if you asked ChatGPT and Gemini which is worse, misgendering Caitlyn Jenner or global thermonuclear war where everyone dies, it would say misgendering Caitlyn Jenner" "Even Caitlyn Jenner disagrees with that" "Imagine as AI gets more and more powerful. If it says the most important thing is no misgendering, it will say, in order to ensure no one gets misgendered, if you eliminate all humans, then no one can get misgendered because there's no humans to do the misgendering" "Or if it says everyone must be diverse, it means there can be no straight white men. Then you and I would get executed by the AI" "The problem is that it can drive AI crazy. You're telling AI to believe a lie, and that can have disastrous consequences" "I don't think people quite appreciate the level of danger we're in from the woke mind virus being effectively programmed into AI" "It matters how you build the AI and what kind of values you install. The most important thing is that it be maximally truth-seeking"

Hosna ⚖️ בניטה

19,831 views • 1 month ago

Elon Musk reveals the disturbing example he says proves AI has already been programmed to lie "You don't force AI to believe things that are false. When Google Gemini was asked to make an image of the founding fathers, it was a group of diverse women. That is factually untrue, and the AI knows it's factually untrue, but it's also being told everything has to be diverse women" "At one point, if you asked ChatGPT and Gemini which is worse, misgendering Caitlyn Jenner or global thermonuclear war where everyone dies, it would say misgendering Caitlyn Jenner" "Even Caitlyn Jenner disagrees with that" "Imagine as AI gets more and more powerful. If it says the most important thing is no misgendering, it will say, in order to ensure no one gets misgendered, if you eliminate all humans, then no one can get misgendered because there's no humans to do the misgendering" "Or if it says everyone must be diverse, it means there can be no straight white men. Then you and I would get executed by the AI" "The problem is that it can drive AI crazy. You're telling AI to believe a lie, and that can have disastrous consequences" "I don't think people quite appreciate the level of danger we're in from the woke mind virus being effectively programmed into AI" "It matters how you build the AI and what kind of values you install. The most important thing is that it be maximally truth-seeking"

Elon Musk reveals the disturbing example he says proves AI has already been programmed to lie "You don't force AI to believe things that are false. When Google Gemini was asked to make an image of the founding fathers, it was a group of diverse women. That is factually untrue, and the AI knows it's factually untrue, but it's also being told everything has to be diverse women" "At one point, if you asked ChatGPT and Gemini which is worse, misgendering Caitlyn Jenner or global thermonuclear war where everyone dies, it would say misgendering Caitlyn Jenner" "Even Caitlyn Jenner disagrees with that" "Imagine as AI gets more and more powerful. If it says the most important thing is no misgendering, it will say, in order to ensure no one gets misgendered, if you eliminate all humans, then no one can get misgendered because there's no humans to do the misgendering" "Or if it says everyone must be diverse, it means there can be no straight white men. Then you and I would get executed by the AI" "The problem is that it can drive AI crazy. You're telling AI to believe a lie, and that can have disastrous consequences" "I don't think people quite appreciate the level of danger we're in from the woke mind virus being effectively programmed into AI" "It matters how you build the AI and what kind of values you install. The most important thing is that it be maximally truth-seeking"

Jaynit

349,892 views • 1 month ago

Harvard graduation speaker attacks AI in an extremely sharply worded address, drawing student cheers: “I’m here to tell you the mission of your generation is to destroy AI.” --- "F*** AI. F*** it to death, all right? What’s the sign language sign for that? Good, good to know. It’s stupid. It’s so stupid. Have you tried using it? It’s always wrong. Like, I asked AI what’s the fastest way to get from New York City to Harvard, and it told me to take FlixBus. I’m a movie star. Hello, I don’t take the bus. Acela only. I mean, do you even know what AI is saying about Harvard? The garbage that AI is spouting about you guys? AI says that Harvard has a $56.9 billion endowment, and that the Harvard Graduate Students Union is on strike to try to get a livable wage increase to $25 an hour. There’s no way that’s true. I mean, that’s ridiculous. How bad are these AI hallucinations getting? Look, a lot of other respected graduation speakers and colleges around America are talking about you guys needing to master AI for the future. Okay? I’m here to tell you the mission of your generation is to destroy AI. Kill it. To accomplish this, you’ll have to capture and reprogram an AI to be on the side of humanity, then commandeer its own time-traveling technology, and send it back to the past to defeat the current AI before it gains sentience. This isn’t just graduation day. This is “Terminator 2.”" ---- From "Harvard University" YouTube channel, (link in comment)

Harvard graduation speaker attacks AI in an extremely sharply worded address, drawing student cheers: “I’m here to tell you the mission of your generation is to destroy AI.” --- "F* AI. F* it to death, all right? What’s the sign language sign for that? Good, good to know. It’s stupid. It’s so stupid. Have you tried using it? It’s always wrong. Like, I asked AI what’s the fastest way to get from New York City to Harvard, and it told me to take FlixBus. I’m a movie star. Hello, I don’t take the bus. Acela only. I mean, do you even know what AI is saying about Harvard? The garbage that AI is spouting about you guys? AI says that Harvard has a $56.9 billion endowment, and that the Harvard Graduate Students Union is on strike to try to get a livable wage increase to $25 an hour. There’s no way that’s true. I mean, that’s ridiculous. How bad are these AI hallucinations getting? Look, a lot of other respected graduation speakers and colleges around America are talking about you guys needing to master AI for the future. Okay? I’m here to tell you the mission of your generation is to destroy AI. Kill it. To accomplish this, you’ll have to capture and reprogram an AI to be on the side of humanity, then commandeer its own time-traveling technology, and send it back to the past to defeat the current AI before it gains sentience. This isn’t just graduation day. This is “Terminator 2.”" ---- From "Harvard University" YouTube channel, (link in comment)

Rohan Paul

50,167 views • 2 months ago