Elon Musk says AI has ‘more positives than negatives’ as he launches his own anti-woke chatbot – for the first time publicly since Don Lemon’s firing

AI doomster Elon Musk appears to have changed his tune on the technology, claiming that the benefits of advancing the technology will ultimately outweigh the disadvantages.

Musk spoke publicly for the first time at a summit on artificial intelligence on Tuesday, just less than a week after the billionaire fired Don Lemon.

The maverick tech mogul – who previously called AI the “most destructive force in history” – insisted there was still “a chance it could end humanity”. But his projections were less gloomy than usual.

“I probably agree with Geof Hinton that it’s about 10 to 20 percent,” Musk told summit attendees, mentioning Geoffrey Hinton, Google’s “Godfather of AI.”

“But I think we’re moving toward abundance,” Musk opined, “as the most likely outcome.”

“I think the likely positive scenario outweighs the negative scenario,” he said.

The apparent softening of Musk’s fears about AI comes as he launches his own artificial intelligence program to compete with ChatGPT maker OpenAI: a “sarcastic” AI called Grok that can now be used for free on Musk’s rebrand of Twitter, X.