Efforts to influence President-elect Donald Trump’s policies via Elon Musk are already beginning. On Friday, nonprofit AI advocacy group Americans for Responsible Innovation (ARI) launched a public petition asking Trump to make Musk his special adviser on AI, saying he is well-positioned to protect the US lead on the technology while ensuring it’s rolled out safely.
Musk has been a leading critic of OpenAI, a company he co-founded but more recently has distanced himself from and made into…