Elon Musk is leaving board of OpenAI due to Tesla conflict
ROCKET MAN Elon Musk has announced that he's leaving the board of the non-profit artificial intelligence (AI) safety group OpenAI.
The Tesla CEO co-founded OpenAI in December 2015 with Y Combinator president Sam Altman, not so long after he'd dramatically referred to AI as "potentially more dangerous than nukes".
The whole idea behind the group was to study the ethics of AI and develop technology that could help people and focus on safety, rather than letting it escalate to robots taking over the world.
However, the OpenAI group announced in a blog post on Wednesday that Musk will be leaving the group due to a conflict of interest with Tesla's machine learning research that looks to develop autonomous driving.
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