Yes, I had very similar thoughts. I think there's room for both. It's great what fast.ai are doing and they'll benefit me more directly, but Elon Musk is pushi

Yes, I had very similar thoughts. I think there's room for both. It's great what fast.ai are doing and they'll benefit me more directly, but Elon Musk is pushing at the other end of the scale. I keep feeling like I'm a total Musk fanboy, but lots of his arguments that I've seen make sense: 1. The major one, is that doing things like aiming for Mars provides inspiration for a better future. There's similar quotes from other people involved with NASA. 2. He talks repeatedly about improving the chances of better futures (clean energy, hyperloop), and lowering the chances of bad ones (Bad AI, single-planetary species on planet that has an extinction event) He's put all his money into the things he sees as important, of which bad AI seems to be high on his list.