The Telegraph My details My newsletters Logout Upgrade to Premium My details My newsletters Logout The Telegraph Elon Musk: Become cyborgs or risk humans being turned into robots' pets the rise of AI Credit: Reuters 2 June 2016 • 10:26am Elon Musk, the billionaire boss of Tesla and SpaceX, has said that humans need to become cyborgs to avoid becoming “house cats” for vastly more intelligent robots.
 Musk said that as artificial intelligence advances, people will need to augment their brain power with digital technology to prevent them becoming irrelevant.
 He backed the idea of a “neural lace” – a new electronic layer of the brain that would allow us to instantly access online information and greatly improve cognitive powers by tapping into artificial intelligence.
 "The benign situation with ultra-intelligent AI is that we would be so far below in intelligence we’d be like a pet, or a house cat"Elon Musk “Under any rate of advancement in AI we will be left behind by a lot.
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 If somebody doesn’t do it then I think I should probably do it,” he said.
 Musk said the scenario in which humans are turned into pets was the optimistic one, and that the true consequences of artificial intelligence could be much worse.
 Last year he launched a $1 billion fund into research on saving humanity from AI, and has joined Professor Stephen Hawking and Bill Gates in warning about the dangers.