our ai systems make decisions in ways that people dont really understandtech bigwigs and scientists may mock mr musk for his chicken little routine on ai but they seem to be moving toward his point of view inside google a group is exploring flaws in ai methods that can fool computer systems into seeing things that are not there researchers are warning that ai systems that automatically generate realistic images and video will soon make it even harder to trust what we see online both deepmind and openai now operate research groups dedicated to ai safetymr hassabis the founder of deepmind still thinks mr musks views are extreme but he said the same about the views of mr zuckerberg the threat is not here he said not yet but facebooks problems are a warningwe need to use the downtime when things are calm to prepare for when things get serious in the decades to come said mr hassabis the time we have now is valuable and we need to make use of it