0 Comments Elon Musk announced that he is thinking about involving Tesla in the creation of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). He also added that he plans on decentralizing the control of Tesla Bot to avoid a Terminator-like scenario. For a few years now, Musk has been pushing the idea that Tesla is the world’s leading company when it comes to real-world applications of artificial intelligence. He describes Tesla’s fleet of vehicles equipped with sensors and computers for self-driving as “robots on wheels.” Advertisement - scroll for more content Through this “real-world application,” the company has also been able to attract world-class AI talent, and Musk boasts that Tesla has the best AI team on the planet. At Tesla’s AI day last year, the automaker unveiled its latest supercomputer, Dojo, to train its neural nets. It also announced that it plans to build a ‘Tesla Bot,’ a humanoid robot meant to do general tasks and repetitive work. Now Musk took to Twitter this morning to announce that Tesla might go a step further and get involved in Artificial General Intelligence (AGI): “Tesla AI might play a role in AGI, given that it trains against the outside world, especially with the advent of Optimus.” Optimus, or Optimus Subprime, is the codename that Musk gave to the Tesla Bot project. This is somewhat surprising considering the many warnings that Musk has issued about creating AGI and the risks to humanity that come with it. Musk was a co-founder and the main benefactor of OpenAI, a non-profit AI research group focused on “ensuring that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.”