The risk of a rogue AI could be heightened if the technology grows exponentially as Musk expects it to. He said during the summit that AI is going to get 10 times better this year, and, in another of his lofty forecasts, predicted that AI would be able to do anything that a human can do within the next year or two.

Businessman Elon Musk, an ally of President-elect Donald Trump, endorsed Republican Senator Rick Scott for U.S. Senate majority leader on Sunday as Trump pushed candidates for the influential post to help him make changes quickly after his party won control of the chamber.