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bkbaba on Dec 12, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: How Elon Musk and Y Combinator Plan to Stop Comput...

Musk: I think the best defense against the misuse of AI is to empower as many people as possible to have AI. If everyone has AI powers, then there’s not any one person or a small set of individuals who can have AI superpower.

???!!!

Isn't this like gun control all over again?! You give more guns to people so that they can be safe, instead you end up killing each other.

dillchen on Dec 12, 2015 [–]

Why is guns the only technological comparison? Replace guns in your statement with mobile phones or access to the internet.

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