Elon Musk on the technologies most likely to affect the future of humanity

In terms of things that I think are most likely to affect the future of humanity I think AI is probably the single biggest item in the near term that's likely to affect humanity it is something that could go wrong as we've talked about many times and so we really need to make sure it goes right Working on AI and making sure it's a great future that's the most important thing I think right now then obviously anything to do with genetics if you can actually solve genetic diseases if you can prevent dementia or Alzheimer's or something like that with genetic reprogramming that would be wonderful so I think genetics might be the sort of second most important item I think having a high bandwidth interface to the brain we have a digital tertiary self in the form of computers phones, applications we're effectively superhuman but we are extremely bandwidth constraint in that interface between the cortex and that tertiary digital form of yourself and helping solve that bandwidth constraint would be I think very important for the future as well as.