Elon Musk, CEO of Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX), stated on X on Sunday that humanity serving as a biological bootloader for machine intelligence could represent a successful outcome if superintelligence spreads beyond Earth.
His comment revisited a concern he expressed in August 2014 about humanity's role in the development of digital superintelligence. The latest response shifts the emphasis from that warning towards a possible outcome in which advanced intelligence reaches the stars, connecting the discussion to SpaceX's space ambitions.
