Musk once tried to stop Google’s DeepMind acquisition in 2014, saying the future of AI shouldn’t be controlled by Larry Page

• At Musk’s 2013 birthday bash, he and Larry Page discussed AI’s role in humanity’s future, per biographer Walter Isaacson’s retelling.
• Page labeled Musk a “specist,” while Musk defended his views as “pro-human.”
• Musk even attempted to stop Google’s acquisition of AI company DeepMind, saying Page shouldn’t control the future of AI, Isaacson wrote in a Time Magazine report.

In the lead-up to Google’s acquisition of DeepMind in 2014, Elon Musk tried to halt the deal and buy the AI company himself.

Walter Isaacson — a writer who trailed Musk for three years to pen Musk’s biography — detailed the background of the buyout attempt in his forthcoming biography, “Elon Musk.” The book is set to be published on September 12. Time Magazine ran an excerpt of the biography on Wednesday.