Sanders calls out Musk's AI-doom U-turn: from 'summoning the demon' to calling warnings a 'setup'
Promptmethus · x · 2026-09-16
Bernie Sanders highlighted Elon Musk calling Jacob Coxon's warning about AI's existential threat a "setup," and tallied Musk's shifting stances: 2014's "summoning the demon," 2018's claim that AI is "far more dangerous than nukes," and 2025's 10-20% odds of "killer robots annihilating humanity."
Sanders asks what changed — pointing to Musk's billions invested in AI and plan to build ten million robots a year. The quote-tweet is fueling AI-community debate over whether commercial interests have reshaped doomer narratives.
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