Elon Musk, Zuckerberg Trade Barbs Over Artificial Intelligence
- One is ‘irresponsible,’ the other’s understanding is ‘limited’
- It’s not the first public spat between the two executives
Elon Musk Trades Barbs With Mark Zuckerberg Over AI
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It’s rare for Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg to interact publicly with other moguls online. When he does, it’s usually friendly and choreographed, like the time he asked Microsoft Corp. founder Bill Gates for help on a Harvard University commencement speech.
But with Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and Space Exploration Technologies Corp., it hasn’t been as cordial. In a live video Q&A on Facebook Monday, Zuckerberg was asked what he thought about Musk’s calls for proactive regulation of artificial intelligence, before the robots become dangerously smarter than their creators and pose an existential threat to humanity.