Deep Tide TechFlow message: On July 23, Musk said in an interview with The Economist that even though the risk of catastrophe from runaway AI and robots “is not zero,” people should not press the “stop button,” because the most likely outcome is unprecedented prosperity for everyone. He predicted that AI will surpass the total sum of all human intelligence in “about five years,” after which the world will enter a “remarkable age of abundance.” Musk also acknowledged that humans are unlikely to continue to control AI over the next ten years, and that AI should be equipped with the right values.