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5 Feb 2026 Dwarkesh Podcast Elon Musk — "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space”
“You can’t have understanding without intelligence and, I think, without consciousness. So in order to understand the universe, you have to expand the scale and probably the scope of intelligence, because there are different types of intelligence.”
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- Elon Musk
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- belief
- Recorded
- 5 Feb 2026
- Publisher
- Dwarkesh Podcast
Transcript context
…I want to ask about how to make Grok adhere to that mission statement. But first I want to understand the mission statement. So there’s understanding the universe. They’re spreading intelligence. And they’re spreading humans. All three seem like distinct vectors. I’ll tell you why I think that understanding the universe encompasses all of those things. You can’t have understanding without intelligence and, I think, without consciousness. So in order to understand the universe, you have to expand the scale and probably the scope of intelligence, because there are different types of intelligence. I guess from a human-centric perspective, put humans in comparison to chimpanzees. Humans are trying to understand the universe. They’re not expanding chimpanzee footprint or something, right?…
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