Elon Musk discusses the future of digital content and media creation with host Nikhil Kamath.
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Musk: X has not suspended or de-amplified any left-wing voices
“So what I've tried to do is just restore it to be balanced and centrist. So there haven't been any left-wing voices that have been suspended or, you know, banned or de-amplified or anything like that.”
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Musk: AI and robotics will make working optional in under 20 years
“I think it will turn out to be true that in less than 20 years, that maybe even as little as, I don't know, 10 or 15 years the advancements in AI and robotics
will
Bring us to the point where working is optional.”
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Musk: Money will eventually disappear as a concept due to AI
“I think long term, I think money disappears as a concept, honestly. It's kind of strange, but in, in a future where anyone can have anything I think you no longer need money as a database for labor allocation. If there's, if AI and robotics are big enough to s…”
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Musk: AI, robotics, and spaceflight companies will capture almost all value
“There's an argument that companies that do AI and robotics, and maybe space flight, are gonna be overwhelming, overwhelmingly all the value, almost all the value. So the output of goods and services from AI and robotics is so high that it will dwarf everything…”
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Musk: Continued AI progress will provide any goods or services desired
“I'm confident that if AI and robotics continue to advance, which they are advancing very rapidly,
Like I said, working will be optional and people will have any goods and services that they want.
if you can think of it, you can have a type of thing.”
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Musk: Energy generation will probably become humanity's de facto currency
“So I think that probably We probably won't have money, and probably we'll just have energy, you know, power generation as the de facto currency.”