Elon Musk: belief

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…Optimus, Grok, et cetera. Not just yours, but any revenue-maximizing company’s products will be leveraged by the government over time. How does this concern manifest in what private companies should be willing to give governments? What kinds of guardrails? Should AI models be made to do whatever the government that has contracted them out to do and asks them to do? Should Grok get to say, “Actually, even if the military wants to do X, no, Grok will not do that”? I think maybe the biggest danger of AI and robotics going wrong is government. People who are opposed to corporations or worried about corporations should really worry the most about government. Because government is just a corporation in the limit. Government is just the biggest corporation with a monopoly on violence. I always find it a strange dichotomy where people would think corporations are bad, but the government is good, when the government is simply the biggest and worst corporation. But people have that dichotomy. They somehow think at the same time that government can be good, but corporations bad, and this is not true. Corporations have better morality than the government. I actually think it’s a thing to be worried about. The government could potentially use AI and robotics to suppress the population. That is a serious concern. As the guy building AI and robotics, how do you prevent that?…

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