Elon Musk Donates $10 Million to Make Sure Robots Don't Kill Us

Elon Musk donates $10 million to artificial intelligence research.

ByABC News

January 15, 2015, 1:06 PM

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk introduces SpaceX's Dragon V2 spacecraft, the companies next generation version of the Dragon ship designed to carry astronauts into space, at a press conference in Hawthorne, Calif. in this May 29, 2014, file photo.
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 -- If the thought of robots destroying humanity keeps you awake at night, you can sleep a little easier now.Billionaire Elon Musk wants to make sure the world will never face a robot uprising.

Musk, the founder of Tesla Motors and SpaceX, tweeted today he is donating $10 million to the Future of Life Institute for research on how to keep artificial intelligence safe.

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He has previously expressed his concern about robots, saying artificial intelligence has the potential to be "more dangerous than nukes."

In a tweet announcing the donation, Musk, 43, said it is "all fun and games" until something goes awry.

Musk joined physicist-cosmologist Stephen Hawking among the high-profile people who signed an open letter earlier this week calling for artificial intelligence not just to be more capable, but also more beneficial to humanity moving forward.