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Christiaan Hetzner

Elon Musk says even if AI ultimately proves bad for humanity he still wants to be there to see it

Chief Executive Officer of SpaceX and Tesla and owner of Twitter, Elon Musk attends the Viva Technology conference dedicated to innovation and startups at the Porte de Versailles exhibition centre on June 16, 2023. (Credit: Chesnot—Getty Images)
  • Elon Musk said the notion that humans once managed an economy will seem quaint in the future, like “cavemen throwing sticks into a fire” in retrospect. The remarks came during a demonstration of his latest artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok 4, which, he argued, was the smartest in the world, better than almost all graduate students in all disciplines simultaneously.

Two weeks ago, Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel struggled to answer whether he would prefer the human race to endure. Now it was Elon Musk’s turn to opine whether technology might remove the need for mankind’s existence.

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