Elon Musk warns against unleashing artificial intelligence 'demon'

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32. At a minimum, true AI will be economically devastating.

Anyone with a knowledge based job...computer programmers, stock brokers, scientists, architects, lawyers...anyone who's job boils down to "thinking for a living", will become obsolete overnight. They will be competing with AI workers who have instant access to the entirety of human knowledge, who can work 24/7 without break, who require no pay or compensation, and who can work orders of magnitude faster than human beings. Who is going to pay a computer software engineer $125k a year to write programs, when a computer can write its own programs absolutely free?

Physical jobs will follow along shortly after, as androids and robots controlled by the AI's are deployed into the world. Once AI's are granted the ability to build their own remote drone "bodies", they'll be able to rapidly adapt them to complete nearly any physical job that humans can do. Once again, humans will be unable to compete.

Even if the AI's are 100% peaceful and altruistic, they will transform human society in ways that will be unavoidably negative for a large segment of humanity.