I believe you
@elonmusk—that coming from one who knows a great deal about it.
The issue deserves serious engineering effort now, not just rhetoric.
Nukes require visible infrastructure, testing, and deployment that intelligence can often monitor, allowing diplomatic, defensive, or preemptive responses, whereas advanced AI can be developed in secret, iterated rapidly in code, and deployed invisibly across networks.
Misuse by unscrupulous actors is a core risk: AI lacks inherent morality and can optimize for harmful goals like disinformation, autonomous weapons, or engineered pandemics if safeguards fail, making stealthy proliferation harder to contain than nuclear programs.
AI isn’t inherently evil or angelic; it is a powerful amplifier of whoever steers it. It presents unique existential challenges due to its potential for recursive self-improvement and goal misalignment, but unlike nukes it also offers tools for mitigation—better detection, alignment research, and defensive AI—provided development prioritizes safety alongside capability.
Many thanks for engaging the field and to be spent in making sure that AI is not a matter of monopoly and by all means not left only to the hands of one or a few above everyone else. Open, competitive development beats monopoly.
Safe, accountable, maximum truth seeking AI will remain to be virtuous standardized AI qualities next to your name, etched in history. Most High bless you. 💯♥️