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Elon Musk: There is an overwhelming consensus that there should be some AI regulation. · Elon Musk Thinking

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  Regulators. So I think the key point was really that it's important for us.
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  It's important for us to have a referee, just as you have a
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  referee in a sports game or all sports games, and that the games are
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  better for it to ensure that those you know, the players, pay the
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  rules play fairly. I think it is important for similar reasons to have a
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  regularator regulator, which you can think of as a referee, to ensure that
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  companies take actions that are safe and in the interests of the general public.
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  Did you tell them that AI has a double edged sword? Yes, And
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  what did you mean by that? Well, what did the metaphor? Yeah?
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  I mean I mean well, if you have a sword with two sides,
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  when you're in one side can get you even though you're trying to get
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  something with the other side. What do you want them to take away?
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  I think it more important to make sure your hilt is also you have a
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  hilt, not a shop thing. Yea. How do you think they how
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  do you think they took the message that you brought to them? Well,
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  I think it was. It was. It was very civilized discussion, actually
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  among some of the smartest people in the world. So I thought it was
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  Senator Schumer a great service here, humanity here along with sport of the rest
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  of the Senate, and I think we'll I think something good will come of
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  this this. I think this meeting may goun on history as being very important
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  for the future of civilization. Do you think some legislation is going to come
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  out of this? Probably? I'm not sure what the timeframe of that is,
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  but you know, the legislative process is not a swift one. But
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  I think it's I think this will the things will go in the right direction
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  generally. Schumer or Leader Schimer did ask everyone to raise their hands in the
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  room to see if they were in favor of AI regulation, and I believe
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  almost everyone did. Yeah, so that's a good sign. Do you think
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  any of the text CEOs left and change their minds? Do you think they
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  were changed by anything they hurt from the Senate side? Well, I can't
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  read their mind but judgment by the fact that they put their hands up when
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  asked if they if they believed that some regulation is in order. I think
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  the general I think it's clear that there's a strong consensus, a woman of
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  woman consensus that there should be some AI regulation, that it would be in
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  the best interests of the people to do so. And I think we'll probably
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  see something happen. I don't know on what timeframe or exactly how it will
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  manifest itself. But the questions what were they going to do? I don't
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  know. I mean, there's there's clearly we've created regulatory agencies before and actually
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  just recently. Just believing me the point that, you know, while our
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  regulatory agencies are not perfect, and I deal with regulators on a very frequent
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  basis with the automotive, you know, communications to starlink and then FA with
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  with with rockets. So I've had transpantent interaction with regulators for you know,
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  a couple of decades at least, And while regulators are not perfect, there's
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  no regulatory agency that I'm aware of that I would I think we should at
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  the federal level at least that that we should delete. Yeah, so I
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  think I or something like that, I don't know what exactly, Perhaps perhaps
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  an apartment of AI. Probably, let's say, I think the probability of
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  there being some sort of a regulatory agency that stands on its own, similar
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  to the FAO FCC is likely at some point, you think, sample I
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  think so. Now, the reason that I've been such an advocate for AI
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  safety in advance of sort of anything terrible happening is that I think the consequences
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  of AI going wrong are our sphere. So we have to be proactive rather
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  than reactive in the past. If he takes a and I'm being somewhat late
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  for speaking of regulators, I'm a little late for the FA I'm meeting with
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  the doone hold you up? I'm sure, but yeah, if you take
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  the example of say seat belts, seat belts were opposed by the auto industry
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  for a very long time, even though the data was very clear that they're
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  safe, that they radically improve deaths and injuries. So you know, we
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  we don't want to be in that situation where we're fighting regulations even though you
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  know there's a safety thing. We can't wait for millions of people to die
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  in auto accidents, as you know, like, and it's important to just
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  elevate the question here. Question is is really one of civilizational risk. So
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  just it's it's not like one group versus another, one group of humans versus
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  another. It's like, hey, this is something that's potentially risky for all
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  humans everywhere, It's very important to to understand that is there an equivalent of
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  really, Congress, it's sufficiently ready to regulate a no, no, no
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  no. The sequence of events will not be jumping in at the deep end
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  and making rules, but it starts with and with insight. In fact,
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  this is actually how all of the regulatory bodies have been formed. Believe.
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  As you start with a group form to create insight to understand the situation,
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  then you have proposed rulemaking, You'll get some objections from industry or whatever,
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  and then ultimately you get sort of consensus on rolemaking. That rulemaking then becomes
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  a law regulation. What's resedge to an ordinary person? Sperment actually, thank
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