Elon Musk on The Intelligence from The Economist
An interview with Elon Musk
Most of this is familiar Musk material on AI abundance, unstoppable automation, spacefaring consciousness, and immigration, and the same interview is duplicated elsewhere in the corpus. Skip unless you specifically want the concrete account of Starlink restrictions in occupied Ukraine.
Well, they essentially got Starlink units that they ordered through Ukraine and then smuggled them into eastern Ukraine where the Russians are, and were then using them in some cases for attacks. Now, the. In order to address this, what, we worked with the Ukrainian government to create a white list of approved Starlink terminals. Now, this has some downsides because a whole bunch of people who were just innocent users of Starlink and just trying to access the Internet for work or for education now don't have Starlink.
Elon Musk discusses rapid AI and robotics progress, forecasting extraordinary abundance while acknowledging risks and proposing limited cooperation among competing AI companies. The interview also covers his visions for space expansion, Starlink’s role in Ukraine, and contentious views on government, immigration, and European politics.