The Future of Life Institute, Elon Musk-backed group, has awarded a grant of $7 million to 37 research teams that will be assigned tasks related to the oncoming advancements of artificial intelligence (AI).

Three projects are busy developing Artificial Intelligence systems that can learn about human's likes and dislikes. As per the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX founder, AI systems have never been more threatening or quicker in development either.

Elon Musk said in an explanation that now the science community need to be more careful about artificial intelligence. The man who builds future cars, boats and unmanned space rockets is freaked out that robot will kill humans.

The Boston-based Future of Life Institute said in a statement that the recipients were selected from among almost 300 applicants from around the world.

It is said that Future of Life Institute, like the aforementioned critics, is concerned with the future of AI. It has launched its grant program to find research teams that would find answer to host of questions in computer science, law, policy, economics, and other fields relevant to coming advances in AI.

Winnings of the grant includes groups from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Stanford University near Palo Alto, California, and a new AI centre at Oxford-Cambridge universities in the United Kingdom.

One group, busy carrying out research to known how to manage issues that might arise, pointed out that their research is concentrated on people that have the ability to manage the liability for the harms AI might cause to individuals and property.