“That’s wild,” Joe Rogan reacts to Google founder Larry Page calling Elon Musk a ‘speciesist’ over AI warnings

In a recent interview, multi-billionaire Elon Musk explains why he is no longer friends with Google co-founder Larry Page. Musk says Larry Page wants to create a “digital god.”

Their disagreement over AI and Page’s seeming negligence toward the dangers AI poses is what led to the rift, Musk reveals.  Page “got very upset with me about OpenAI”. OpenAI is an American artificial intelligence research laboratory. It conducts AI research with the declared intention of promoting and developing a friendly AI. Open AI was created to be “the furthest thing from Google”, says Musk who co-founded OpenAI in 2015.

“Then he called me a speciesist,” Musk tells Tucker Carlson from Fox News for advocating human safety over AI. Speciesism is the philosophy that human consciousness should have more moral rights than non-human consciousness, in this case, artificial intelligence. With the rapid success of Open AI’s Chat GPT, Google aims to come out with its own automated AI later this year. Google Deepmind is a subsidiary of Google that operates much like ChatGPT but is much more advanced and learns from experience. Elon Musk’s concerns lie in the fact that Google pretty much holds the internet monopoly with AI power and computers. Thus the world’s AI integration under one company whose CEO turns deaf ears toward the dangers of AI worries Elon.

Joe Rogan in a recent episode with Howie Mandel brings up the discussion of AI along with the above interview. Rogan expresses his concern regarding the rapid competition among companies to create the first Artificial General Intelligence. This would bring AI to par with all human capabilities.

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Joe Rogan on Artificial Intelligence

Joe Rogan has made multiple public statements regarding his concern with artificial intelligence. Being friends with Elon Musk, they obviously share similar views. In the recent episode of his podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, Rogan along with guest Howie Mandel dedicate a section to discussion on AI. Both had contrasting views on the subject.

The interchange between Howie Madel and Joe Rogan indicates that there are two schools of thought regarding AI – those that think AI is created for the benefit of humans, and therefore will not cause harm. And those who believe two seemingly opposite things can be true at the same time – AI can be beneficial, but it can also kill, so caution is warranted.

“It’s not whether or not it’s scary, it’s a kind of life-form,” Rogan says. A recent video surfaced earlier which depicted a very realistic conversation between Joe Rogan and the CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman. But it was completely generated by AI. The episode, created with ChatGPT was posted on YouTube and it instantly went viral.

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