(Mr. Musk wrote again: “Thanks Sam!”)
Within the “On With Kara Swisher” podcast, in March 2023:
“He’s a jerk, no matter else you wish to say about him — he has a mode that isn’t a mode that I’d wish to have for myself. However I feel he does actually care, and he’s feeling very careworn about what the longer term’s going to appear like for humanity.”
Within the “In Good Firm” podcast, in September:
“Elon was undoubtedly a expertise magnet and a spotlight magnet, for positive, and likewise identical to has some actual superpowers that had been tremendous useful to us in these early days, except for all of these issues.”
What Mr. Musk and Mr. Altman stated about A.I. in joint appearances:
In a dialog at Vainness Honest’s New Institution, in October 2015:
Mr. Altman: “The glad imaginative and prescient of the longer term is people and A.I. in a symbiotic relationship, distributed A.I., type of empowers a variety of people, not this single A.I. that type of governs every thing all of us try this’s one million occasions smarter than every other entity.
Mr. Musk: “I agree with what Sam stated. We’re successfully already a human machine collective symbiot, like a large cyborg.”
In an interview Mr. Altman performed with Mr. Musk, in September 2016:
Mr. Altman: “Talking of actually essential issues — A.I. — you’ve got been outspoken about A.I. May you speak about what you assume the optimistic future for A.I. seems like and the way we get there?”
Mr. Musk: “So I feel we should have democratization of A.I. know-how, make it broadly accessible, and that’s the rationale that clearly you, me, and the remainder of the crew, created OpenAI was to assist with the, assist unfold out A.I. know-how so it doesn’t get concentrated within the fingers of some.”
Cade Metz contributed reporting.