A newly released biography on Musk details how he justified poaching a Google scientist to then-CEO Larry Page. "And I was like, 'Larry, if you just hadn't been so cavalier about AI safety then it wouldn't really be necessary to have some countervailing force," Musk said. Sutskever joined Google's AI unit, Google Brain, in 2013 along with Geoffrey Hinton — also known as the "godfather of AI." "And I was like, 'Larry, if you just hadn't been so cavalier about AI safety then it wouldn't really be necessary to have some countervailing force," Musk added. When Musk started his own AI startup — xAI — in July, he again poached AI experts from Google and OpenAI.

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