Musk: merging with machines is the 'only escape route' from AI elimination
Puzzleheaded-King584 · reddit · 2026-10-17
A Reddit post quotes Elon Musk saying the only way for humans to avoid being eliminated by AI is to voluntarily merge with machines and become a new species. The poster likens this to Star Trek's Borg assimilation—'resistance is futile'—and asks how conservatives can be OK with it, attaching a video clip of Musk.
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