Elon Musk Just Said Something About AI That’s Literally Incomprehensible

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No one expects Elon Musk to coherently speak on any topic at length these days, busy as he is rotting out his neurons on his personal echo chamber and culture warzone X. 

Still, even we’re surprised at just how nonsensical this latest take from him is.

During his first all-hands meeting at Cursor after SpaceX acquired the company for $60 billion, Musk shared some of his profound reasoning on why he needs to accelerate AI development.

According to a new scoop from The Information, Musk said it’s inevitable that AI models will one day become so advanced they’ll be impossible for humans to control.

That’s exactly why, he explained to the Cursor employees, it’s imperative that SpaceX’s AI division builds the technology before other companies do.

As you may have already concluded, this makes zero sense. If it’s “inevitable” that AI will become impossible to control, why does it matter if Musk builds it first? If this was about nuclear weapons, one might argue that their proliferation deters others from using them. Not Musk; in his tortured reasoning, we’ll all eventually be annihilated in nuclear armageddon anyway, so why not build the biggest bomb before anyone else does?

Musk isn’t even arguing — or at least, coherently arguing — that his company is the only one that can be trusted to safely build AI, as his rivals like Anthropic do. All that matters, it seems, is that it comes out ahead.

It’s a self-serving worldview that ironically demonstrates that Musk is probably the last person we should trust the tech’s future with. His deployment of his chatbot Grok is testament enough why his temperament is clearly toxic to responsible AI development. 

Built with an anti-“woke” bent, Musk’s AI was immediately let off the leash to spout racist beliefs, call itself an incarnation of Adolf Hitler, praise and prioritize its creator to a suspicious degree, and rant about white supremacist conspiracy theories. Musk even used Grok to create a Wikipedia ripoff that was immediately caught citing actual neo-Nazis — while also, coincidentally, speaking about his companies in favorable terms.

It also would be remiss not to mention that earlier this year, alarm grew over how Grok was being used to generate millions of nudes of real people — many of them minors. Maybe we shouldn’t be worried about out-of-control AI in the future, but the whackjobs controlling AI in the present.

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IN the summer of 2019, I was seated in the wine cellar of a walled Medieval town high above the Dordogne Valley of France, not far from Sarlat-la-Canéda, making phone calls, writing reports. I have given this story in other places and it appears as though you’re about to hear it again. Rob Skiba is a name you that you might be familiar with. Though he had made a name for himself as a Nephilim researcher, more recently Rob had taken a dive into the deep end of the pool via flat earth research. The recorded interviews I conducted between he and Rick Hummer, a fellow flat earth investigator and close friend of his, was published while still occupying that very wine cellar. Read all about it. Chicago Is Not a Mirage.

Word quickly spread. Within a few short weeks, dozens of flat earth researchers began accepting my invite for a private interview, if not a series of interviews. From a 17th-century tower built by King Louis XIV, and with a stunning view of the Alps, I sat down with Robbie Davidson, founder of the Flat Earth International Conferences, conducting multiple sessions. While staying in Dumfries, Scotland, David Weiss agreed to take part in the interviews, as did Bob Knodel of Globebusters. There were others. But when I asked the interviewees to discuss the moments that shaped their lives, among the many PSYOPs, false flag attacks, and hoaxes that were discussed, only these men committed commentary to the false 9/11 narrative.

The resulting recordings ballooned into The Unexpected Cosmology, a book which became a website and was even intended as an anthology. And of course, the following discourse was originally a chapter. It was Walt Disney who stated, “Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.” Those sentiments remain applicable here as well. American Sensationalism: The 9/11 Interviews was always intended to be expanded upon with the inclusion of new researchers. So I’m sorry to say the project became stagnant during the Covid-19 psychodrama. I took a break to tackle other projects. We lost Rob Skiba. Rob offered hours of private conversation regarding his life but we never got around to the big one. 9/11. It was in the cards. Sadly, Bob Knodel died soon afterwards. Voices are being squeezed from an entire generation. Gnosis passes with them.

In the aftermath, the FE community became fractured. People began going their separate ways. Robbie Davidson, among a noted few others who were interviewed for the project, got up and left the movement altogether. It is not my intent to erase his or the contributions of others if only brief. They came, they went, their testimonies remain.

The original vision may have hit roadblocks but it is not forgotten. I expanded this paper a few years later to include testimony from author Pauly Hart, a dear friend of mine. I had wanted to continue that trend every year thereafter but you know how it goes. For the 25th anniversary of the attack I have redirected my efforts to its first large scale expansion, including Andrew Hoy and Darrin Geisinger into the mix. Perhaps others will lend their experiences to the recorder in time.

The following is their report.

Read the 9/11 Interviews

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