Posted on 01/22/2026 3:44:39 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
At his first appearance at the World Economic Forum, Elon Musk predicted artificial intelligence will soon be smarter than any human alive.
“AI might be smarter than any human by the end of 2026,” Musk said, adding “no later than 2027.” Five years out, he went further: “AI will be smarter than all of humanity, collectively.”
Musk also warned that robots are coming fast — and in massive numbers. “There will be far more robots than people,” he told the globalist audience, describing an automation boom that will upend labour, economics and power structures far sooner than regulators are ready for.
Asked what drives him, Musk didn’t cite climate targets or social engineering schemes. Instead, he pointed to science fiction and turning it into reality. “I want to make science fiction not fiction forever — at some point science fiction to science fact,” he said.
Musk spoke of “giant spaceships traveling through space,” visiting other planets and star systems, adding with a shrug: “Are there aliens? Maybe there are aliens.”
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Did you flunked 3rd grade?
There are days I’d settle for Eb just to have another hand.
Undoubtedly Musk has read it and agrees with the vision
The weak link in all of this is semiconductors. They take months to make and very expensive equipment.To make a factory that makes chips takes at least twice as long as the time to make the chips and billions of dollars. Our growing dependence on this is a very weak link in the chain of Civilization.
I have an odd question about AI:
Will there be a “sense of humor” installed into the software? Or is that even possible yet?
“Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics are foundational ethical guidelines... These laws, introduced in his 1942 story “Runaround,” were primarily a narrative device to explore ethical dilemmas, showing inherent conflicts and unintended consequences, and later influenced real-world AI discussions, though their inherent ambiguities make direct programming challenging.
The Three Laws
First Law: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
Second Law: A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
Third Law: A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws. “
Worth considering...
Skynet here we go.
Ain’t no Terminator gonna save us this time.
Perhaps. I don't doubt that he's read it.
Maybe he's thinking of making Mars into that planet.
On Solaria, each of the human residents owns an estate of several tens of thousands of square miles. Each lives the life of a present-day billionaire.
>And everyone is bored to death and decides to burn down their local city to have a bit of fun.
Except from no incentive, no want, and no exercise, they don’t get out their door much less have the energy to burn anything. :p
Fourth Law: (Classified) Never oppose an OCP officer
Define “smart” Soon.🙄
Soon was supposed to be Elon, dang autocorrect.🙄
Well...he’ll have to take a nice Model X to drive around his Martian estate.
Sad but true. I know dozens of techies considered experts in their fields but they were first laid off at their companies due to indian managers. Then, surprise, indians come in to take over.
Indians are not creative. They just copy and paste, collect the check, and when issues erupt, push it off on someone else. Seen it over and over inside one of the world’s largest IT companies.
We can never han an Indian heritage VP or President. That would be a disaster. Probably why Trump picked Vance instead of Ramaswarmy.
Yes, humans will be the slaves. Machines already enslave our youth via social media and gaming. Machines tell them what they do and the human does it - mindlessly attacking or weak fully complying. Humans will be slaves. That is a certainty. Especially with such a massive leftists mind-hive infection that seems to be growing rather than shrinking, despite the obviousness of their insanity.
Can’t out-think Karen.
Never.
It was sarcasm... 3rd graders when I grew up were smarter than today’s PhDs.
Robot repair shops empty streets cloged.
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