He’d also been picking up a more paranoid, pessimistic view of AI that tracked with his tendency to take things to their extreme. He could have, for instance, simply fought oil companies to tackle climate change, but decided to make humans an interplanetary species instead. He could have bought a stake in Twitter when he resolved it was too woke, but he bought the whole company. Maybe it was Musk’s habit of taking drastic action, his tendency to exaggerate, or his belief in his role as humanity’s savior, but within a couple of years of investing in DeepMind, the tycoon was tunneling deep into
...more
