In Elon Musk's view, all the world is just living in someone else's video game.

With technology being what it is and showing more advancements every day, the Tesla Motors and SpaceX founder is convinced the time has come for us as people to start figuring out ways to physically merge our worlds with technology in order to save ourselves.

Musk Doesn't see Reality as Being Reality

During a Code Conference forum, Musk told attendees he thinks there's only a "one in billions" chance we're actually living in reality.

"Forty years ago we had pong," said Musk. "Like two-rectangles and a dot. That was what games were. Now forty years later, we have photo-realistic, 3D simulations with millions of people playing simultaneously and it's getting better every year. Soon we'll have virtual reality, augmented reality. If you assume any rate of improvement at all, then the games will become indistinguishable."

Musk isn't the first to advance such logic. Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom once publicly shared details of his "existential risk" research, where he delves into what he sees as the very viable possibility that humans could be replaced by AI.

Musk Founds OpenAI

Not long after characterizing the robot uprising as "potentially more dangerous than nukes," Musk founded OpenAI, an AI research nonprofit that wants to develop friendly, instead of harmful AI.

Still, Musk doesn't view the entire situation as one of doom and gloom. He expressed optimism in branding us already cyborgs with superpowers, rationalizing part of us already live online and our access to social media is beyond our ancestors' wildest dreams.

In the end, Musk predicts if we as humans don't continue progressing quickly, we could become "like a pet or like the house cat" for AI. He reasons the best defense would be for us to physically blend with technology in a "neural lace" that helps us control technology.

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