Elon Musk is kinda worried about AI. (\u201cAI is a fundamental existential risk for human civilization and I don\u2019t think people fully appreciate that,\u201d as he put it in 2017.) So he helped found a research nonprofit, OpenAI, to help cut a path to \u201csafe\u201d artificial general intelligence, as opposed to machines that pop our civilization like a pimple. Yes, Musk\u2019s very public fears may distract from other more real problems in AI.