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Published · transcript-backedElon Musk: preference
5 Feb 2026 Dwarkesh Podcast Elon Musk — "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space”
“I think anything else would be shortsighted, because obviously I’m part of humanity, so I like humans.”
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- Speaker
- Elon Musk
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- Claim type
- preference
- Recorded
- 5 Feb 2026
- Publisher
- Dwarkesh Podcast
Transcript context
…Already it’s the case with SpaceX that for things that are crucial—the government really cares about getting certain satellites up in space or whatever—it needs SpaceX. It is the necessary contractor. You are in the process of building more and more of the technological components of the future that will have an analogous role in different industries. You could have this ability to set some policy that suppressing classical liberalism in any way… “My companies will not help in any way with that”, or some policy like that. I will do my best to ensure that anything that’s within my control maximizes the good outcome for humanity. I think anything else would be shortsighted, because obviously I’m part of humanity, so I like humans. Pro human. You mentioned that Dojo 3 will be used for space-based compute.…
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