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Elon Musk on AI: humans will no longer be in control in ten years
Musk tells The Economist that humans may not be in control within a decade. That is the last question we ask of every major AI policy.
If the founder of multiple frontier companies tells The Economist that humans will no longer be in control in ten years, the country should not treat that as entertainment.
Our five-question test ends with the one most bills fail: will the policy still work as AI becomes dramatically more capable? Loss of human control is not a subplot. It is the governing problem.
American AI Safeguards exists so that question is asked in public—before control is already gone.