Elon Musk says AI is dangerous. Why?

2017 just flew away yesterday...
Welcome! 2018

I begin 2018 with Elon Musk's quotes:






What makes me shout that quote?
Do I; just like Elon Musk; think that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is dangerous?
If so, how dangerous is AI?

To get a perspective of how dangerous AI has already become or can become in near-future, let's do a quick recap of 2017 AI-related happenings & inventions:

[1] Facebook had to shut down one of its AI systems after its Chatbots started speaking in their own language defying the codes provided

[2] Killer Robots (aka Lethal Autonomous Weapons) are already in use. These are AI, ML, NN, powered Weapons used to select/attack targets (people/installations) without human intervention 

[3] Google’s researchers built an AI-tool that can remove watermarks that Shutterstock uses to protect all of its images. Why is this threatening? Answer: People can manually remove watermarks today, using image editing tools like Photoshop, but this tool is automatic - it cleans the watermarks off tons of images in the time it would take a human to clean one. So, anyone-outside-google who can build this tool can steal all images and build a parallel-similar marketplace

I, by this post, don't want to demean the power that AI can/will give us.
I am simply a strong believer of what Elon Musk says:
'We need to be SUPER-CAREFUL with AI'.

I had written in great detail about all of the above 3 topics in 2017. Read them here:

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