Elon Musk is committed to making his most recent startup the dominant force in cutting-edge technology, similar to Tesla’s hegemony in the auto sector. Although some in Washington and the tech industry are sceptical, they worry that Musk’s project could end up being the “Truth Social” of chatbots—a conservative alternative that doesn’t catch on.
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With the introduction of xAI, Musk has taken his crusade against progressive ideas into the politically charged world of technology. Musk sees his recent entry into Twitter as a way to fight the “woke mind virus,” which he calls the “woke mind virus.” It strengthens his position as the de facto leader of a group of libertarians in Silicon Valley who are increasingly siding with the Republican Party.
Musk’s new business could influence the future of AI development in a libertarian direction—if it succeeds in taking off—at an era where arguments about AI bias and its potential existential risks have turned into a culture war. Elon Musk asserted during the launch event last week that politically correct AI is “incredibly dangerous” since it requires the technology to produce deceptive results, invoking the deceptive character of HAL 9000, the killer AI from Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film “2001: A Space Odyssey.”
Tech experts disagree with Musk’s claim that his AI will be built to be “maximally truth-seeking” in order to understand the cosmos. Musk’s logic is similar to what ChatGPT, a program known for producing absurd results, would produce, according to Divyansh Kaushik, an emerging technology specialist at the Federation of American Scientists. Musk’s assertions were refuted by Carina Prunkl, a fellow at Oxford’s Institute for Ethics in AI, who also pointed out the danger of an AI absorbing all information obtained from humans.
Prunkl also voiced worry that Musk’s idea of a fully objective AI might muddle the line between information and truth. Musk’s ideas are nebulous, and some experts are hesitant to dismiss them completely due to the need to promote different approaches to AI research.
The all-male founding team of xAI has drawn criticism, igniting the cultural war. However, the team’s outstanding technological background, which includes former Google and OpenAI employees, offers a good basis for consideration. “These are very, very smart people,” said Kaushik.
Tech veterans in Washington, however, point out non-technical challenges to Musk’s ambition for a libertarian AI. Musk’s goal is hardly original, according to Nu Wexler, a former Senate staffer with experience at Facebook and Twitter, and any libertarian AI will surely run afoul of a tangle of jurisdictional regulations around the world. Wexler emphasized that despite Musk’s assurances that Twitter would become a refuge for free speech, the social media site still complies with government takedown demands.
Elon Musk stated during the launch event that there are several legal issues with xAI’s existing legal department and that it has to be upgraded. The possibility that xAI may be used to circumvent housing discrimination laws or provide advice on unlawful actions has been questioned by Adam Kovacevich, a former Google policy lead and the current CEO of the Chamber of Progress, a center-left digital trade group.
In addition, Kovacevich commented on Musk’s tilt to the right, citing Twitter’s opposition to an FTC probe while House Republicans examined the FTC Chair’s data security procedures. Musk’s activities, according to him, were supportive of partisan trolling.
Due to advertisers’ dissatisfaction with Twitter’s hands-off content regulation strategy, Musk’s administration of the company has pushed left-leaning users to investigate alternative platforms, resulting in decreased revenues. The politically incorrect chatbot idea Musk offered during an interview with Tucker Carlson seems to indicate that he is ready to move on to the next stage of his makeover into a GOP supporter. Musk was once hailed as a progressive electric car pioneer.
Musk adopted a measured demeanor during the project’s recent launch event on Twitter Spaces, emphasizing the technical rather than the political sides of the initiative. He even indicated a desire to meet with Vice President Kamala Harris to discuss artificial intelligence. Musk highlighted the possible benefit of his AI to the quest for extraterrestrial life when selling it. The ongoing culture battle is momentarily eclipsed by this issue’s popularity in Washington and on Twitter.
He asked, “Why are there so few aliens?” “I’m the most likely person to have seen evidence of aliens,” I said.
