Sanders calls out Musk: 2014 'summoning the demon' to 2025 'AI warnings are a setup'
RazRazcle · x · 2026-09-12
Senator Bernie Sanders publicly challenged Elon Musk's flip-flop on AI existential risk. Musk warned in 2014 that humanity was "summoning the demon," said in 2018 that AI is "far more dangerous than nukes," and in 2025 gave earth a 10-20% chance of "killer robots annihilating humanity" — yet now calls researcher Jacob Coxon's AI warning a "setup." Sanders asks whether Musk's billions invested in AI and plan to build 10 million robots a year explain the change.
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