'The outcome could be extinction': Elon Musk-backed researcher warns there is NO proof AI can be controlled - and says tech should be shelved NOW

A researcher backed by Elon Musk is re-sounding the alarm about AI's threat to humanity after finding no proof the tech can be controlled.

Dr. Roman V. Yampolskiy, an AI safety expert, has received funding from the billionaire to study advanced intelligent systems that are the focus of his upcoming book 'AI: Unexplainable, Unpredictable, Uncontrollable.'

The book examines how AI has the potential to dramatically reshape society, not always to our advantage, and has the 'potential to cause an existential catastrophe.'

Yampsolskiy, who is an associate professor of computer science at the University of Louisville, conducted an 'examination of the scientific literature on AI' and concluded there is no proof that the tech could be stopped from going rogue.