Musk: I think OpenAI made a dangerous discovery that led to Altman's firing

The titan of technology Elon Musk has given several statements regarding the chaos that engulfed the startup OpenAI after the dismissal of the CEO, Sam Altman, and the eventual return of the latter to the company after several days of negotiations.

Despite helping to found OpenAI, Musk said during an interview at the Dealbook Summit that he has no inside information on the drama that engulfed OpenAI with Altman's sudden firing, but expressed "concern" about what it would mean for the technology. Artificial Intelligence, Telegraph reports.

"I have mixed feelings about Sam. The ring of power has the capacity to corrupt someone," said Musk, citing the movie "The Lord of The Rings."

Musk added that he wanted to know why OpenAI co-founder and chief scientist Ilya Sutskever "felt strongly against Sam."

"This sounds like something serious. I don't think it was trivial. And I am very concerned that they have discovered some dangerous elements of Artificial Intelligence," he added.

It is not yet clear why the board fired Altman from OpenAI. However, days ago it was reported that engineers at OpenAI had made a major breakthrough before Altman was fired.

The discovery was about AI's capacity to solve mathematical problems, with a logic that a person with human intelligence could solve.

This would lead to the "awakening" of a super-intelligence that would defeat even human intelligence. /Telegraph/