Elon Musk (Full Interview) | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

You do things that are much smarter than you, why wouldn't they become yours? overlords, so what did you say to Chuck Schumer and what are we doing about it? I know you want to take a break from AI because in the last six months with the GPT chat that came from a company that you started, yeah, well, I mean, a friend. Mine has a kind of modification of Occam's razor, you know, you know, instead of the simplest being the most likely, the most ironic result is Most likely to be fine, yes, with respect to AI. I just think we should have some kind of regulatory oversight, so you know, anything that's a danger to the public, whether it's some kind of airplane, car, uh.

Food and drugs and all that, we have some regulatory oversight as an arbiter essentially and we make sure that companies don't cut corners, so I think that given that if one agrees that AI is a potential risk to the public, so there should be some regulatory body that oversees what companies are doing so that they don't take shortcuts and potentially do something very dangerous, don't do something, lay out a scenario for me in the next two five ten years if nothing is done because we are very good for doing nothing, especially when it comes to profits and this is a big profit driver now for companies that will want to simply compete with each other.

I mean, there are people like Ray Kurzweil who don't think it's a problem at all, actually, Ray Kurzweil's prediction for artificial superintelligence is 2029. He's not terribly wrong, but he doesn't think it's a problem, while people like you, Bill Gates and Stephen Hawking thought it's a problem. Yes, it depends on whether. Some people want to live forever or for a much longer period of

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and see AI as the only way to achieve that or digital superintelligence as the only thing that can figure out how to make them live forever. I think Kurzweil is in that category. so he would rather have general artificial intelligence than not, because he can calculate longevity.

So are you an optimist? I read in your Rolling Stone article a while ago that you said you can never be happy unless you're in love, well you can be half happy, I guess I mean this, I mean, there are two things, I think so to be

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. , to be happier, if you are happy in love and love your job, then you will be. I think you're completely happy if you lack either of those two things, if you have one of those two things, be half happy, you know, roughly. I feel like the theme in a lot of your work that connects all these different things is connecting like you want to connect things.

You know you want to connect in the Hyperloop and you want to connect this to Mars and even connect four people in that game. That? Connect Four. You know this is a comedy. You know it's hard for you because when you bought Twitter. you're doing what you did when you took over when you started Tesla you lived in the factory right I feel like that's your pattern you get into this and then you have to live in the factory to make it work if you came back moved to Texas and then you moved back to San Francisco because of Twitter.

I was just living in the Twitter library for a while. um, yeah, but I think things are reasonably stabilized at the moment. Uh, I'm on the fast track to bankruptcy after that position, so I had to take drastic action, there was no other option. I'm just saying it's hard for a woman, yeah, to like it when the guy lives in the factory, yeah, that could be it. it could be a hindrance, but yeah, but overall, you know, my concern with Twitter was that it's kind of like the digital town square and it's important that there's both the

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ity and the perception of trust for a wide variety of points. from view um and uh there was a lot of censorship going on um and we kind of discovered a lot of that with the Twitter archives, including a lot of government-driven censorship, which you know, is, I mean, it seems like That has to be a constitutional violation. of what was happening there, but hey, that's how it is and I can, since I have a Twitter user, I could detect that something is not right here, and that's

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ly the reason I did it. that position wasn't because I thought it was an easy way to make money or something, it was a man, this is the mayor of Twitter town, tweetown or whatever, it's definitely like there are a lot of arrows pointing at you like they're flying towards you , of course, but you know, but you seem to handle that, okay, I hope you do, because yeah, look, I mean, geniuses are going to be a little quirky some

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s, but your heart is always in the right place.

You were trying to fix this world and look. I could talk to you forever, today we can't. I'd love to get high with you. I know a great place. I can't tell you how much I appreciate you. I know you have many options and places you can go, thank you. Elon Musk, ladies and gentlemen, very good, see you soon.