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_Published 2023-11-03. U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak interviewed tech billionaire Elon Musk in London. The pair discussed risks posed by artificial intelligence, how governments should address them, and how the technology might impact jobs, with Musk predicting that it could render most roles obsolete._


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## Transcript

I mean, this is something that you've spoken about a little bit it was something we were pretty hard on because it my job is to say hang on there is a potential risk could be bad. My job is to protect the country and we can only do that. If we develop the capability we need and I'll safety Institute and then go in and make sure we can test them before they are released like an event happened today. But what's your view of what we should be doing? Right you felt about the potential risk it again. We don't know but you know, what are the types of things goblins? Like I should be doing to manage and mitigate against those were you don't like I do with Regulators throughout the world because of stalling thing Communications Rockets being a space and cars in a patriot vehicle transport.

So there's no telling with with regulators and I actually agree with the vast majority of regulations of the few that I disagree with from time to time, but .1% probably so There was some concern from people and Silicon Valley who who never dealt with Regulators before and they think that this is going to just Crush Innovation and and slow them down and be annoying but it will be annoying. It's true having a referee is a good thing. What would you'll have observation Beyond on AI in the impact of Labour markets in people's jobs and how they should feel about that as they are. They think about this.

Well, I think we are seeing the most destructive force in history here. Yeah, we we have for the first time we will have to put something that is smart and smart as human and bets. I mean it's hard to say exactly what that mon is, but there will come a point where no job is needed. You can have a job if you want to have a job posting all satisfaction, but the way I will be able to do everything at work if you mean, what does that mean? And where do you get that moderation and we grapple with his politician that you were grappling with your invention of that and you you moved away from a from a manual human way of doing it the motivation to that the community is an interesting change, right?

It's not what everyone else has it done. If you couldn't know what what was the reasoning behind? Why do you think that is a better way to do that? Oh, yeah, if you can power people are sensors, then we'll have that. There's going to be some amount of bias as they have and then whoever appoints the sensors is effective only in control of information. So then that I'd even like for you to notice as well. How do we have a consensus driven? I mean, so sorry censoring it but consensus-driven approach the truth.

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