
- 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.