@wearedigitaldiplomacy: After his surprise meetings this past week with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in Rome and with French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris, billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk received a rockstar welcome to the stage of the Viva Tech conference in the Frenchbcapital, with rapturous applause from the audience, shouts of “We love you, Elon!” and even one attendee brandishing a bouquet of flowers for him. “Zut alors! Bonjour, Paris!” Elon Musk — who controls Tesla, SpaceX, Twitter, and X.Corp — responded in French. In spite of the noticeably warm reception inside the Dôme de Paris venue on Friday, in the world outside, Musk continues to be a divisive figure, seen by some as a disruptor who goes against the grain and takes risks in business and by others as a provocateur and a threat to democracy. “I think there’s a real danger for digital superintelligence having negative consequences. So, if we’re not careful with creating artificial general intelligence, we could have a potentially catastrophic outcome,” Musk said about AI. “We need to minimise the possibility that something will go wrong with digital superintelligence projects.” His visit to Paris has coincided with Brussels lawmakers voting in favour of the EU AI Act this week. Musk wasn’t asked about what he thought of it and didn’t offer an opinion either, which is perhaps not unsurprising. He and the European Union have had acrimonious relations of late due to their opposing stances on regulation when it comes to digital spaces like Twitter. He later added that he said that while “AI was probably the most disruptive tech ever,” we were living in the most interesting era. “We’re heading toward an age of abundance” because of the tech, he said. He added that he was in favour of AI regulation as “anything that is a risk to the public needs some kind of referee.” #elonmusk #digitaldiplomacy

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Sunday 18 June 2023 15:00:54 GMT