Tesla CEO and owner of the social network X, Elon Musk, called this Wednesday to create “independent arbitrator” to ensure safe development artificial intelligence (AI)which he described as one of the “major threats to humanity”.

Within the framework of the AI ​​security summit sponsored by the UK, the American king defended the need for rregulates the activities of companies developing these systems. “I think what we really want to do here is build a framework for oversight. There’s at least a third party, an independent arbitrator, who can look at what the leading AI companies are doing and raise a warning if they raise concerns,” said Musk. media.

Artificial intelligence is “one of the main threats to humanity”

“For the first time, we are in a situation where there is something smarter than the smartest human,” said the entrepreneur who considers artificial intelligence to be of utmost importance. “one of the main threats to humanity”. “It’s not clear whether we can really control something like that, but I think we should steer it in a direction that is beneficial to humanity,” he said.

Musk, who is scheduled to hold talks with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Thursday, said he did not come to the summit to defend “any particular policy.” “I said, let’s try to build it monitoring framework by a neutral third party“he explained.

Once those steps are taken, “certain policies or specific laws will be proposed, and that will be done in collaboration with AI companies,” he added. The American tycoon participated in the Bletchley Park Summit (central England), along with 29 world governments, including the United States, China and the European Union, as well as major technology companies in the AI ​​sector, including OpenAI, Google DeepMind and Anthropic. .