Elon Musk says he'll create 'TruthGPT' to counter AI 'bias'

Billionaire Twitter owner Elon Musk is again sounding warning bells on the dangers of artificial intelligence to humanity— and claiming that a popular chatbot has a liberal bias that he plans to counter with his own AI creation.

Billionaire Twitter owner Elon Musk is again sounding warning bells on the dangers of artificial intelligence to humanity— and claiming that a popular chatbot has a liberal bias that he plans to counter with his own AI creation.

Mr. Musk told Fox News host Tucker Carlson in a segment aired on April 17 night that he plans to create an alternative to the popular AI chatbot ChatGPT that he is calling “TruthGPT,” which will be a "maximum truth-seeking AI that tries to understand the nature of the universe.”

The idea, Mr. Musk said, is that an AI that wants to understand humanity is less likely to destroy it.

Mr. Musk also said he's worried that ChatGPT “is being trained to be politically correct.”

In the first of a two-part interview with Mr. Carlson, Mr. Musk also advocated for the regulation of artificial intelligence, saying he's a “big fan.” He called AI “more dangerous” than cars or rockets and said it has the potential to destroy humanity.

Separately, Mr. Musk has incorporated a new business called X.AI Corp, according to a Nevada business filing. The website of the Nevada Secretary of State’s office says the business was formed on March 9 and lists Mr. Musk as its director and his longtime adviser, Jared Birchall, as secretary.

Mr. Musk has for many years expressed strong opinions about artificial intelligence and has dismissed other tech leaders, including Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates, for having what he has described as a “limited” understanding of the field.