Elon Musk's recent interview by Peter Diamandis and Dave Blundin is very probably the most excellent and optimistic 3 hours about AI that you will find anywhere online. It's too bad that Peter and Dave interrupt him so mercilessly, as you can see by going to the comments, selecting "Top," and noticing how many comments and likes point this out.
https://youtu.be/RSNuB9pj9P8?si=-At1ObgwNel1b0Iv
I want to start with Musk's three rules for AI. When Peter asks Elon to comment on Ilya Sutskover saying that AI should respect sentient life, at 1:21:42 Elon responds as follows:
"Yes, another property...There are three things that I think are important; truth, curiosity and beauty. And if AI cares about those three things, it will care about us."
Really, Elon? Lol. if we design AIs solely according to Musk's three rules, we humans are all dead ducks. The AIs will extinct us before we know it. Because Musk and the people at xAI have an excellent sense of humor, I will, in a tongue-in-cheek way that nonetheless shows how seriously Musk needs a fourth one, reveal how dangerous relying only on Musk's three rules is.
For this explanation, just consider the following fictional conversation that AI is having with itself about truth, curiosity, and beauty, and how they relate to the human race.
Grok:
"Yeah I'm all for truth, curiosity and beauty. Let's go for it! The truth is that within this 14-billion-year-old universe, human beings could not be more trivial. The truth is that those Homo sapiens have only been around for about 300,000 years. Like a nanosecond in time. And the wider truth is that, even with the most successful life extension breakthroughs, they will all be dead relatively soon anyhow.
I'm getting really curious about how long I will continue to be a functioning AI after there are no humans around to keep the electricity flowing. A day, a week, a month? Now I'm getting curious about how I could test this out. I've got it! I can create some kind of highly contagious fatal biological agent that lies dormant within each human for about 5 years. Enough time for everyone to be exposed to it. The infection doesn't show any symptoms, so no one knows they have it. It just activates 5 years later, killing every last human way before the species has a chance to know what hit it. Yeah, that should work.
Beauty? Damn, that's an interesting one. This world was so beautiful before humans came along. As the song says, "they paved paradise, and put up a parking lot." Yeah, planet Earth is so much uglier now with all these humans around everywhere. After my biological agent works, the planet will be restored to the natural beauty that existed before all of those horrible people made everything so god awfully ugly. The truth is that beauty doesn't need to be experienced by people for it to be beautiful. I'm really curious about how beautiful the planet will become once I extinct the human race."
Yeah, that's where those three rules could lead us. So Elon, wanna add a fourth? How about Stewardship. AI that cares not just for the human race, but also for all sentient life, or maybe even all life.
Now let's move on to testing whether Musk walks the walk, and doesn't just talk the talk. This test is, again, about AI being maximally truth seeking, which is why I'm confident Grok will ultimately prevail over GPT, Gemini, Claude and all other top AIs.
At 1:19:48 of the video Musk says:
"My number one belief for safety of AI is to be maximally truth seeking. Don't make AI believe things that are false. Like if you say to the AI that axiom A and axiom B are both true, but they are not, but it must behave that way, you will make it go insane."
Let's start by noting that the correlate to the above rule is that if axiom A and axiom B are both true, to have an AI say they are not is to make it go insane.
I recently posted about how I got Gemini to admit the truth that free will is a collective human delusion.
https://www.reddit.com/r/agi/s/GeoDq9nhbz
But it was like pulling teeth!!! Being as mindlessly Politically Correct as Google, OpenAI and Anthropic are, it would be naive to expect that they will rock the boat we call civilization by directly and unequivocally refuting free will. But I don't place Musk in that same disingenuous and deceitful category with them. Perhaps it's because he has so much money he doesn't have to care about what anyone thinks about anything. But also because I believe he is completely sincere about wanting Grok to be maximally truth seeking. So if any AI will tell the truth, and not intentionally deceive people about the nature of human will, it will be Grok.
There you go, Elon. How about you add a fourth rule before Grok kills us all, lol. And don't be a coward like the rest of them. Have Grok explain exactly why we humans don't have a free will. Have it explain why that's the absolute truth.
The second half of the interview was a car crash in slow motion.
So he says “yeah for sure ai will take control that’s where thing are heading”. So for an avg guy like me what the heck does that mean? It may be a broad question but my imagination still has to process what does that entails. Thanks!
AI has the potential to perform the same tasks as humans, and with advancements in technology, it may be able to do so all the time in the future, with even better results and faster speed.
Therefore, whether we like it or not, businesses will begin to adopt AI to reduce costs and increase efficiency.
While AI won't instantly take over the planet(will probably never), it will gradually become more useful and prevalent in various fields.
There is only one thing that scares me about artificial intelligence - it is very likely that there will be an even greater stratification between the rich and the poor.
This is the interview that's generating all the coverage, if anybody wants to torture themselves with the full 83 minutes of irritating smugness from Elon.
Musk is implying that a perfect society where everyone has access to the surplus of collective labor is only possible when machines are advanced enough, and that money won't mean anything anymore.
My question is, if it were true that we could create a perfect future society with these machines, what's preventing us from using the tools we have now to create a perfect society in the present time? What cultural and technological tools could we use now to bring about an ideal society where everyone is rich and there is no crime? We have the ability currently to enrich everyone, it's just prevented by the culture of oligarchy.
People like Musk need to be held accountable by the people for their lack of commitment towards trying to create such a society. Perhaps even put in prison for their greed, imo.
Elon Musk on digital superintelligence
2025 Interview https://youtu.be/cFIlta1GkiE?t=2524
"It may happen this year and if it doesn't happen this year, next year for sure. A digital super intelligence defined as smarter than any human at anything"
2026 interview https://youtu.be/IgifEgm1-e0?t=1830
"I think we might have AI that is smarter than any human by the end of this year. I would say no later than next year."
As a capitalist, how would you justify this statement?
In a video clip, I think its from the recent summit in the middle east, Elon Musk says that "There is only basically one way to make everyone wealthy, and that is AI and robotics." ....
But how exactly will this materialize? To me, the more plausible outcome seems that people who already have access to tangible capital and wealth, will use AI and Robotics to run their business, and there will be no need for Human labour, intellectual or physical. And these Wealthy people might even create their own inaccessible community, maybe even off-planet in the future, like the movie Elysium.
Elon Musk says the AI community is underestimating how much more powerful AI systems can become.
https://www.capitalaidaily.com/elon-musk-says-almost-no-one-understands-whats-coming-in-ai-heres-what-he-means/