How Elon Musk's $10 Million Donation Will Help Ensure Artificial Intelligence Doesn't End Up Killing Us All

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, doesn’t trust artificial intelligence, which he once likened to “summoning the demon.”

In fact, Musk distrusts it so much that, in January, he donated $10 million to the Future of Life Institute (FLI) to fund a program with the goal of making sure AI doesn’t completely overrun our ability to regulate it and end up destroying us all.

Now some of that $10 million will be doled out in grants to 37 research projects around the world, according to Bloomberg. The $7 million FLI will distribute came from Musk’s donation and a $1.2 million award from the Open Philanthropy Project.