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Inside Elon Musk's Struggle for the Future of AI | Time

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'I can't just sit around and do nothing.' An exclusive excerpt from Walter Isaacson's new Elon Musk biography

At a conference in 2012, Elon Musk met Demis Hassabis , the video-game designer and artificial--intelligence researcher who had co-founded a company named DeepMind that sought to design computers that could learn how to think like humans. “Elon and I hit it off right away, and I went to visit him at his rocket factory,” Hassabis says. While sitting in the canteen overlooking the assembly lines, Musk explained that his reason for building rockets that could go to Mars was that it might be a way to preserve human consciousness in the event of a world war, asteroid strike, or civilization collaps

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