Musk says AI could exceed the sum of human intelligence within five years
r0ck3t23 · x · 2026-07-25
Musk says AI could surpass the sum of human intelligence in about five years
The post quotes Elon Musk saying AI may exceed the sum of human intelligence in roughly 5 years, and that by then there may be little AI cannot do better than humans except being human itself.
The thread turns that claim into a broader argument:
- AI pushes the bottleneck from external scarcity into human desire and judgment;
- abundance may remove many of the excuses that limit what people build or attempt;
- what survives is not productivity, but distinctly human things like being chosen, loved, and deciding what to ask for;
- the real inheritance of the machine age may be that humans keep “what we are” while machines take “everything we could do.”
Related event: Musk Predicts AI to Surpass Total Human Intelligence in Five Years(6 posts)→
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