[adamsmith143]

If you look at actual quotes from people like Sam Altman, Ilya Sutskever, Demis Hassabis, etc. the AI, that is to say really the AGI, that they want to build is a godlike super intelligent being. To many researchers in the field this is their end goal.

[ke88y]

And Minsky before them.

[hgsgm]

And Elon Musk wants to die on Mars. It doesn't matter what their "goal" is.