AI Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Sign Up By submitting your email, you agree to our Terms and Privacy Notice. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. He said that he has been worried about AI in his college years, that it could be a “double-edged sword,” one that could “solve all the diseases and make everyone prosperous, or it could kill us all.” He suggested that AI had two outcomes: the utopian Star Trek one, or the dystopian Terminator one. He wants the future to be more like Gene Roddenberry’s and not like James Cameron’s. This was his intention in cofounding OpenAI. Musk cast himself as a hero — the good guy who cares about humanity, suggesting that Altman is the opposite. It could prove to be an effective strategy, especially when contrasted with Altman, whose background cofounding the long-forgotten social media app Loopt and his days as a partner at Y Combinator, might sound far less magnanimous. Musk went as far as claiming that Altman was a thief. “It’s very simple: it’s not okay to steal a charity. That’s my view and moreover if the defendants are found not guilty, this case will become case law. It will become precedent and give precedent to looting every charity in America,” Musk said. “If the verdict comes out that makes it okay to loot a charity, the entire foundation of charitable giving in America will be destroyed.”