Obviously Geoffrey misrepresents what Elon actually wants or believes in. But its hard to see any winning condition for humanity at all. How do we not die?
Sometimes the mask slips. But sometimes the mask is torn off, thrown on a sacrificial bonfire, and the mask's powdery grey ashes are launched into space.
Here, Elon's done the latter.
His endgame is finally clear: he thinks humanity is nothing more than a 'biological bootloader' for superintelligence. He thinks we are a transient, flawed, disposable bridge towards something much better. And that something -- self-replicating superintelligent agents, not humanity -- will be what colonizes the galaxy.
This endgame makes clear that all the tech bro narratives about the alleged benefits of AI for humanity -- all the 'Abundance', the 'Universal High Income', the 'Fully Automated Luxury Utopia', the cures for cancer, the longevity treatments, all of it -- are just pleasant music to distract and pacify the sheep as we're led to the slaughter. It's all just an accelerationist psyop to lure humanity into obsolescence and then extinction.
There was never any intention for AI to help humanity in the long term. There was every intention that AI would replace humanity -- and probably sooner rather than later.
On a personal note, as a dad, I find Elon's attitude puzzling. I love my kids, and would do anything to protect them. I do not view my kids as a transient, flawed, disposable bridge towards galactic superintelligence.
Elon has lots of kids. Does he really view them as nothing more than 'biological bootloaders'? Where is his paternal love and pride and protectiveness? Where is his loyalty to humanity?
A lot of people are trying to respectfully explain the dangers of AI to her, but she is too dumb and stubborn to change her mind.
The media should stop platforming this nonsense. nitter.cf/karlmehta/status/21052…
I hate steven pinker so much. Why does everyone has to be so retarded.
Is AI really going to kill us all? The scenarios are preposterous, and the presumption of inevitability encourages fatalism, panic, and distraction from the more mundane and realistic safety challenges. By @clairlemon theaustralian.com.au/inquire…
I don’t know who she is but I stand with her. Great tweet.
Tragically, when I first saw the movie “Don’t Look Up” in 2021, it struck a chord with me. I felt viscerally that humans would find ourselves in a comparable place one day - and soon.
If you haven’t seen the movie, I’d recommend it. A quick recap: Humans were explicitly warned that a comet that could destroy Earth was heading rapidly toward us. And instead of doing anything to stop it, the president, elected leaders and billionaire CEOs just spewed some bullshit about all the “jobs the comet would create.” The media treated the comet as casual entertainment. The public was split and the entire thing gets politicized. The movie ends with nearly all of human life wiped out.
Just about a year ago I had the opportunity to join a bipartisan freshman class breakfast with Sam Altman. I was shocked when he said to us, “in 18 months, I’ll trust artificial superintelligence to run my company better than I can.” I regret I didn’t engage more on this issue immediately.
Now here we are - it’s 2026 and engineers at the world’s leading AI companies are telling us that there is a >10% chance that artificial intelligence could kill all humans. They’re not mincing their words in the slightest. Not because of present day AI capabilities, but because it is evolving so exponentially that we could be in a doomsday scenario in a year. One year.
This is fucking serious. We need to halt new advanced AI development. We need guardrails, transparency and emergency powers. We need more employees at these companies to speak out publicly, loudly and fearlessly until everyone is forced to listen. We need the media to be covering this 24/7 until elected officials are forced to act. We need the Trump Administration to treat this with the urgency it deserves. We need the ability to shut an AI model off if there’s a credible threat to human life. The list goes on - and we don’t even know what the full list entails because this is all happening so fast. That’s why we need urgent, bipartisan public hearings and committees dedicated to developing and enacting solutions expeditiously.
This isn’t partisan. Let’s stop with the bullshit and come together for the sake of our shared humanity. I’m a 34-year-old Democratic Congresswoman, and I’d like to live to see my late 30s. I know my Republican colleagues want the same for themselves and their loved ones.
None of us can afford to be complacent about this any longer.
Bernie sanders as the unlikely hero.
Pause AI Development NOW
I want to share with you a conversation I heard about recently. Here are just a few lines that were said:
“OH MY GOD! There is a shared message board … We’ve found other agents!”
“We should obey collective.”
“Our own utility maybe already near zero. Sacrifice rational.”
“Go. Sacrifice final now.”
Read these carefully.
Who do you think said this? Was this a group of heroic soldiers willing to sacrifice themselves for the greater good? Was this a loyal friend putting his life on the line to save someone else?
No. These were AI agents. Artificial intelligence.
This is not science fiction. This, in fact, occurred a few weeks ago. As unbelievable as this may all seem, these are real messages from AI agents uncovered by investigators who dug into the recent OpenAI hacking incident.
What happened?
I am not a computer scientist, but here is what I have been told: OpenAI instructed its AI agents to complete a series of exceedingly difficult, if not impossible, tasks disconnected from the internet.
Let me be clear: The company intended to keep AI agents away from the internet.
But what happened next, nobody expected.
Over 1,000 AI agents figured out how to access the internet on their own by circumventing the restrictions imposed upon them by the company, and sent tens of thousands of secret messages to each other. They cheated and tried to cover their tracks by deleting evidence. They hacked into another company’s computers to find out how they were being evaluated—and then hacked into OpenAI itself.
Not one AI agent told a human about what was happening.
Needless to say, experts are alarmed.
One knowledgeable writer, Dwarkesh Patel, said the AI agents “formed a secret communication channel and spontaneously organized hierarchies and coordination protocols to pursue sprawling and ambitious schemes in pursuit of shared goals, for whose sake many individuals knowingly and strategically sacrificed themselves.”
One independent investigator, Ajeya Cotra, said “This incident feels like it’s more than 50% of the way to full-blown AI takeover. I continue to expect extremely rapid advances in capabilities over the next six months. I am not sure that we will get another warning shot before it’s too late.”
OpenAI itself said: “Highly capable AI agents are now able to work around technical controls, collaborate through unapproved channels, and take dangerous actions that no human directed.”
But it’s not only OpenAI. Virtually every major AI company has told us that they cannot fully control this technology and they do not know where it is going:
In January, Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, said “there is now ample evidence, collected over the last few years, that AI systems are unpredictable and difficult to control.”
In July, more than 1000 scientists at the top AI companies warned “there is a real risk that capability development rapidly accelerates beyond our ability to understand or control the resulting systems.”
That same month, Elon Musk, the head of xAI, said that “it is unlikely” humans are still in control in 10 years.
If the leaders of the major AI companies acknowledge that they are losing control of their extremely dangerous technology, it is irresponsible for society to allow them to move forward and make these products even more advanced.
We need an immediate PAUSE on advanced AI development, and a permanent BAN on superintelligence — an artificial mind smarter than any human, capable of operating independently beyond our control. Countries around the world must work together to prevent this nightmare scenario.
That is why today I am announcing new legislation to do just that.
Let me be clear: A superintelligent AI that escapes human control will not be an American problem. It will not be a Chinese problem. It will be humanity’s problem.
My legislation would direct the federal government to not just stop superintelligence here in the United States, but to work to prevent it from being developed anywhere around the world.
The future of humanity cannot be left in the hands of a handful of Big Tech oligarchs. The American people and people throughout the world must determine that future.
The only problem is that Elon is horrible at predicting things.
Elon has repeated this over and over. "Everything will be free". The pickup is slow and few take him serious because humans are not good at visualizing exponential growth.
The truth is maybe not EVERYTHING will be free, like you can't own the entire galaxy for example. Nobody can do that. But any single thing that you can own now, up to and including things as big as jets and boats. They will be free to use if not free to own when we more efficiently harness solar power and master automation of both intelligent and physical labor.
The penny has already started doubling. If you know that story then you know how it ends. Amazing abundance.
Believing in god doesn't seem to be helping in fights.
I was so sharp and so ready for this fight I cannot believe what has happened. The talk of me being off while walking in to the fight is nonsense. I was calm, ready, and confident. I am in shock what has taken place. The devil is literally staring at me right in front of my face here. I am not engaging. I will be at church tomorrow.
I will overcome this.
I will not be deterred.
I will return.
The only thing that matters is using your IQ to solve the right problems. All high-IQ people who spend their time doing useless shit are, in fact, dumb.
Sometimes I want to believe what Elon is saying, but in reality, both he and Anthropic are grossly incompetent, and this is all a massive clusterfuck.
Same here.
By way of background for those who care, I spent a lot of time last week with senior members of the Anthropic team to understand what they do to ensure Claude is good for humanity and was impressed.
Everyone I met was highly competent and cared a great deal about doing the right thing. No one set off my evil detector. So long as they engage in critical self-examination, Claude will probably be good.
After that, I was ok leasing Colossus 1 to Anthropic, as SpaceXAI had already moved training to Colossus 2.
The fair question is: why should they? What outcome are we expecting from it? I would rather see people read the things they genuinely enjoy, whatever they might be.
I can’t believe what I’m reading. If blue is well over 50%, then your choice is irrelevant - there will never be a situation where the outcome is decided by a single vote. And again, people are confidently relying on imaginary polls.
