In late 2013, when Musk learned that Google would acquire DeepMind, he was convinced that such a union would end very badly. Publicly, he warned that if Google gave a hypothetical AGI an objective to maximize profits, the software could seek to take out the company’s competitors at any cost. “Murdering all competing A.I. researchers as its first move strikes me as a bit of a character flaw,” Musk told The New Yorker.
