Musk’s honest AI view is that nobody knows what superintelligence brings
danfaggella · x · 2026-07-24
A post contrasts two Musk-style statements about AI.
- One sounds utopian: machines will eventually provide everything humans want.
- The other is more candid: nobody really knows what happens when intelligences far beyond us exist.
- The author argues the second framing is the honest one.
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