On Saturday, the Associated Press said that Tesla Automobile CEO Musk warned at a meeting of the American Governors Association that government regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) is necessary because it "poses a fundamental risk to the existence of human civilization."

Musk said that car accidents, plane crashes, medicines and food problems will only cause local damage to society, but artificial intelligence may pose a threat to society as a whole. For example, machines driven by artificial intelligence will definitely replace human work in the future. "This is one of the problems I fear the most," Musk pointed out that in 2014, the US transportation industry provided 4.6 million jobs, and these jobs will gradually disappear due to the arrival of unmanned vehicles in the future. "Robots will handle all the work."

Musk also reminded that the biggest threat to artificial intelligence is not robot killers, but "deep wisdom in the network." He further explained that artificial intelligence can manipulate information by creating fake accounts, sending fake news, etc., and can even trigger war.

At the conference, Musk spoke extensively about solar energy, space travel, autonomous vehicles and other emerging technologies.

Speaking of the issue of autonomous driving, Musk expects that within 10 years, all new cars in the United States will have autonomous driving capabilities, half of which are pure electric vehicles. He also believes that China may achieve this day earlier than the United States.

He also said that the "steering wheel will disappear" in the next 20 years. He warned that the biggest threat to autonomous driving technology comes from hackers, because control of autonomous vehicles or fleets is still done through software.