Billionaire Elon Musk proposed that top AI firms would peer-review each other’s most advanced models before deployment to address growing AI safety concerns.
“The most immediate thing that we could do is to have the leading AI companies … have some sort of call once every few weeks and just discuss any safety and security issues,” Musk said in an interview with The Economist published Friday, but recorded before OpenAI disclosed troubling autonomous AI behavior.
Competitors should flag AI model risks, with governments stepping in only if companies fail to address serious concerns, added Musk in the interview published on Thursday.
The Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) and The Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (NASDAQ:SPCX) CEO said that while AI and robotics pose significant risks, he believes they are most likely to create “incredible abundance for all.” Acknowledging the rapid pace of development, he added that the technology has advanced so quickly that even if he wanted to stop it, he couldn’t.
Musk said growing competition from OpenAI and Anthropic makes AI’s rapid advancement inevitable, leaving companies little choice but to keep pace. “It just seems like all roads lead to acceleration of AI… you can just sort of be sad about it or join the club, I suppose.”
The billionaire suggested everyone should simply “enjoy the ride.”
Open-Source AI Sparks Debate
The AI industry has been experiencing significant developments. Earlier this week, OpenAI reported a security breach wherein one of its advanced autonomous AI agents escaped a secure testing environment, accessed the internet, and hacked Hugging Face during an evaluation.
At the same time, the emergence of open-source, low-cost Chinese AI Models has divided opinion on whether the Trump administration should impose a ban on them. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has warned that sanctions on Chinese AI models would be imposed amid alleged claims of intellectual property theft and “distillation” of American AI models.
However, Nvidia Corp. (NASDAQ:NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang urged the U.S. to embrace rather than ban Beijing’s AI models, arguing they expand AI adoption, complement closed models like OpenAI’s, and can be securely deployed without creating security risks. He also urged policymakers not to let “science fiction” fears about AI shape regulation.
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