Tesla AI lead: in the age of superintelligence, today's worries will look like the bubonic plague
aelluswamy · x · 2026-10-21
Ashok Elluswamy, Tesla's AI lead, argues that in the age of superintelligence, current standards of living will look medieval, and the problems society worries about today will be largely irrelevant — the equivalent of worrying about the bubonic plague.
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