In the sense that it will kill us? No. In the sense that it may cause a lot of people to retrain? Maybe. Regarding the first version, Musk says this in ord

In the sense that it will kill us? No. In the sense that it may cause a lot of people to retrain? Maybe. Regarding the first version, Musk says this in order to acquire more AI talent, or get it cheaper. Jürgen Schmidhuber does the same thing. What they have in common is they both run organizations that they founded in order to build "AGI". It is odd that they're warning against AGI and building it at the same time. My theory is, if they can convince people that they're doing something "causeworthy" or world-changing, then they can attract more AI talent. In Musk's case, OpenAI also serves as a pipeline, or at least networking location, for getting more in-house talent at Tesla. I think it hurts the field of AI that they say things like this because it gets people's expectations up. However, it also looks like it helps them recruit and network in an area of work that is very, very competitive among companies. The guy who went from Waymo to Uber's self driving car program, for example, had received a $100 million bonus from Google, and Google said this was not out of the ordinary for engineers at that level. Regarding #2, I'm a bit more optimistic than the average SV person. I don't think anyone can tell the future. We just need to focus on making education more accessible. There are no two ways about it, in my view.