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5 Feb 2026 Dwarkesh Podcast Elon Musk — "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space”
“I think arguably most consciousness, or most intelligence—certainly consciousness is more of a debatable thing… The vast majority of intelligence in the future will be AI.”
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- Elon Musk
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- belief
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- 5 Feb 2026
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
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…By the time you’re sending stuff to Mars, Grok is on that ship with you, right? So if Grok’s gone Terminator… The main risk you’re worried about is AI, why doesn’t that follow you to Mars? I’m not sure AI is the main risk I’m worried about. The important thing is consciousness. I think arguably most consciousness, or most intelligence—certainly consciousness is more of a debatable thing… The vast majority of intelligence in the future will be AI. AI will exceed… How many petawatts of intelligence will be silicon versus biological? Basically humans will be a very tiny percentage of all intelligence in the future if current trends continue. As long as I think there’s intelligence—ideally also which includes human intelligence and consciousness propagated into the future—that’s a good thing. So you want to take the set of actions that maximize the probable light cone of consciousness and intelligence. Just to be clear, the mission of SpaceX is that even if something happens to the humans, the AIs will be on Mars, and the AI intelligence will continue the light of our journey.…
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