Throughout an interview at a world convention this week, Elon Musk talked about a variety of themes, from area journey and synthetic intelligence (AI), to start charges, and extra.
The Milken Institute suppose tank is holding its annual international convention in Santa Monica, California, this week, and Musk was interviewed by the group’s Chairman, Michael Milken, on Monday. In the course of the interview, Milken introduced a number of of Musk’s previous quotes as prompts, to which Musk may reply and generally increase on issues he has mentioned prior to now.
Like a lot of his interviews, the matters have been considerably wide-ranging, although they included lots of the issues he has been outspoken about prior to now: his ideas on humanity, training, SpaceX and Starlink, the necessity to make people multi-planetary, aliens, merit-based economic system, AI, start charges, and nonetheless extra.
The interview begins with Milken saying that the unique title of the panel dialogue was “How To Save The Human Race, and Different Mild Subjects.”
He then dives into an 11-year-old clip of Musk speaking in regards to the issues he thought would have the largest impression on humanity, to which the billionaire listed lots of the issues his firms cowl right now: the web, sustainable power together with solar energy and electrical autos (EVs), and humanity changing into multi-planetary.
“Life can’t be about fixing one factor or one other. There need to be issues that transfer your coronary heart and make you excited to get up within the morning,” Musk stated, increasing on his prior quote. “And I believe changing into a spacefaring civilization is a kind of issues.”
“Should you ask youngsters anyplace on the planet, like ‘what are a number of the most inspiring issues,’ like a five-year-old, six-year-old anyplace on the planet, they’re going to gonna say area exploration is a kind of issues,” Musk added.
Notably, Musk additionally stated that SpaceX makes use of practically no AI in its operations, whereas he additionally later clarified a few of his reasoning for why he needs humanity to turn out to be multi-planetary:
“Effectively, when you don’t turn out to be a multi-planet civilization, then you definitely’re then you definitely’re merely ready round till you die from a self-inflicted wound or from some pure catastrophe just like the dinosaurs bought hit by a meteorite or one thing,” Musk stated.
“Finally, one thing like that’s going to occur when you wait round lengthy sufficient, the solar will increase to Earth and might be incinerated in order that for certain is gonna occur.”
Together with discussing themes like enhancing the human genome (which he doesn’t essentially counsel humanity does), and issues surrounding the world’s falling start charge, Musk additionally mentioned AI—a subject he’s accustomed to by way of each his work at Tesla and his latest firm, xAI.
Relating to AI, he reiterated themes he not too long ago spoke about on the Breakthrough Prize awards on making these methods as truthful as attainable, even on the danger of being politically incorrect.
“I’ve thought of AI security for a really very long time, and I believe you wish to have a most truth-seeking AI. This is essential,” Musk defined. “They shouldn’t be taught to lie. It shouldn’t be taught to say issues that aren’t true. Even when these issues are politically incorrect, it ought to nonetheless say these what it believes to be true.”
He then in contrast the know-how to the movie 2001: A House Odyssey, saying that (spoiler), a part of the film’s level was that HAL 9000 ended the astronauts’ lives as a result of it had been compelled to lie.
You’ll be able to watch the complete interview with Musk under.
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