Elon Musk shares his terrifying vision of "murderous drones"

Elon Musk, in a TV interview broadcast Sunday night on "Axios on HBO", told how Tesla

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"Was bleeding money like crazy" and nearly sank at the beginning of this year.

But the conversation took a darker turn when he began to talk about the scary future – and the present – of artificial intelligence:

"You could make a swarm of murderous UAVs for very little money. By just taking the chip face used in cell phones, with a small explosive charge and a standard drone, and simply having it sweep the building until the person sought by the person they are looking for rushes on it and explodes. You can do it now … No new technology is needed. "

For fans of the British TV series Black Mirror, this scary scenario and perhaps too realistic must sound familiar.

In "Hated in the Nation", the sixth and final episode of the critically acclaimed third series, people targeted by social media were murdered by drones. Here is a trailer to give you an idea:

Thus, in order to overcome the "existential threat" posed by artificial intelligence, Musk says that we must merge with machines. To this end, he founded a company called Neuralink that aims to achieve a man-IA symbiosis.

Musk told Axios that he would do it with a "micro-level electrode-neuron interface" – "a chip and a bunch of tiny wires" that "will be implanted in your skull". He said that he thought it was possible in a decade.

"And by the way, you already have this in a strange way: you have a digital tertiary layer in the form of your phone, your computers, your watch," explained Musk in the interview. "You basically have these computing devices that already form a tertiary layer on your cognition."

Watch this clip of the interview to find out more: