Elon Musk spent half-hour expounding on house exploration, declining beginning charges, free speech, and synthetic intelligence in house, at a much-anticipated look on the twenty seventh annual Milken International Convention.
Mainly, all the things apart from Tesla (TSLA).
Not as soon as did the tech billionaire point out his famed EV maker, or X, previously generally known as Twitter, or the controversy surrounding them.
As an alternative, throughout a Q&A session with convention founder Michael Milken, Musk declared, “when you’re gonna die someplace it could as properly be Mars, I’d wish to probe for a bit earlier than dying.”
Musk did particularly name out — twice — the $11 billion California excessive velocity rail, whereas discussing legal guidelines and rules.
“At this level California has made nearly all the things unlawful,” Musk stated. “Traditionally what has cleared away the cobwebs of regulation has been warfare. I would like to not have a warfare.”
He as a substitute recommended a “rubbish assortment course of” for guidelines and rules, with none additional clarification.
Attendees started lining up two hours earlier than the occasion, with the road stretching your entire size of the Beverly Hilton lodge. But some began to depart midway by the meandering chat.
Whereas most of these within the viewers had been leaders within the monetary world, there have been some celebrities together with Gwyneth Paltrow and Ryan Seacrest.
In current weeks Tesla has been mired by a slew of excessive profile government departures.
However as a substitute of addressing Tesla’s current woes, viewers members had been left with broad futuristic declarations from Musk.
At one level Milken learn an viewers query asking about AI accelerating Musk’s efforts in house.
“Oddly sufficient one of many areas the place there’s nearly no AI used is house exploration,” Musk stated, including that his firm SpaceX, and its satellite tv for pc enterprise, Starlink, use no AI. “I’m not towards it, we simply haven’t seen a use for it.”
Musk additionally stated he is been pondering AI security for a very long time. “I feel we need to have a most truth-seeking AI, that’s crucial. The AI shouldn’t be taught to lie, it shouldn’t be taught to say issues that aren’t true,” he stated.
Musk ended his chat discussing what retains him up at evening: Finish of civilization threats. After which he rapidly exited the stage with out taking any impromptu questions.
Yasmin Khorram is a Senior Reporter at Yahoo Finance. Comply with Yasmin on Twitter/X @YasminKhorram and on LinkedIn. Ship newsworthy tricks to Yasmin: yasmin.khorram@yahooinc.com
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