Elon Musk warns of humanoid robots that can ‘chase you anywhere’ in conversation with Rishi Sunak

Elon Musk warns of humanoid robots that can 'chase you anywhere'Rishi Sunak

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00:00 I do think there is a safety concern,

00:04 especially with humanoid robots, because at least the car

00:07 can't chase you into this building very easily,

00:11 or chase you off a tree.

00:14 You can run up a flight of stairs

00:15 and get away from a Tesla.

00:16 [LAUGHTER]

00:19 I think there's a Stephen King movie about that,

00:23 if your car gets possessed.

00:26 But if you have a humanoid robot,

00:28 it can basically chase you anywhere.

00:30 So I think we should have some kind of hardwired, local cut

00:36 off that you can't update from the internet.

00:39 So anything that can be software updated from the internet,

00:42 obviously can be overridden.

00:43 But if you have a local sort of off switch,

00:47 where you perhaps say a keyword or something,

00:49 and then that puts the robot into a safe state,

00:53 some kind of localized safe state ability, an off switch,

01:01 where you don't have to get too close to the robot.