[{"type":"paragraph","children":[{"text":"The worldâs (occasionally) richest manâs latest appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience had everything: flying cars, AI apocalypse talk, and a side of conspiracy. For three hours, he swung from promising airborne Teslas to alleging that an OpenAI whistleblower was murdered, while insisting heâll never take his own life and that empathy is overrated."}]},{"type":"bulleted-list","children":[{"type":"list-item","children":[{"text":"Musk and Rogan discussed the recent Tucker Carlson conversation with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Musk referred to the death of OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji, and said the case âlooks like murder.â He listed details he said appeared suspicious, including cut security camera wires, blood in two rooms, a wig found at the scene, and a food delivery placed shortly before the death."}]},{"type":"list-item","children":[{"text":"âHe ordered DoorDash right before allegedly committing suicide, which seems unusual,â Musk said. âItâs like, âIâm going to order pizzaâon second thought, Iâll kill myself.â Thatâs a very rapid change in mindset.â"}]},{"type":"list-item","children":[{"text":"Musk and Altman co-founded OpenAI in 2015, and later separated over its direction. Musk has since launched xAI and filed multiple "},{"type":"link","url":"https://decrypt.co/341517/elon-musks-xai-sues-openai-again-this-time-over-alleged-trade-secret-theft","children":[{"text":"lawsuits"}]},{"text":" against Altman and OpenAI, alleging the company violated its nonprofit charter through its relationship with Microsoft and sought to steal company data from xAI."}]},{"type":"list-item","children":[{"text":"Musk took a moment during the discussion to emphatically say he would never commit suicide. âI am never committing suicide, ever,â he said, adding that if any reports claimed otherwise, they should not be believed."}]},{"type":"list-item","children":[{"text":"He also discussed new developments at his companies. Musk said Tesla plans to debut its new Roadster before the end of 2025, and that the vehicle includes âcrazy technology.â He said the car could be capable of flight and described it as âcrazier than all the James Bond cars combined.â\n"}]}]},{"type":"paragraph","children":[{"text":"âMy friend Peter Thiel once reflected that the future was supposed to have flying cars, but we donât have flying cars,â he said. âI think if Peter wants a flying car, we should be able to buy one.â"}]},{"type":"bulleted-list","children":[{"type":"list-item","children":[{"text":"Musk also discussed SpaceXâs "},{"type":"link","url":"https://decrypt.co/323042/elon-musk-spacex-mars-plan-self-sustaining-colony","children":[{"text":"Starbase"}]},{"text":" launch site in Texas, which had been incorporated as a city in May, and said the company now delivers about 90 percent of all mass sent from Earth into orbit."}]},{"type":"list-item","children":[{"text":"âItâs not that often you hear, âHey, we made a city,ââ Musk said. âThat used to be, in the old daysâa startup would be go and gather a bunch of people and say, âHey, letâs go make a town.â Literally, that would have been startups in the old days.â"}]},{"type":"list-item","children":[{"text":"He also said SpaceX aims to achieve full rocket reusability within a year to reduce launch costs by a factor of 100."}]},{"type":"list-item","children":[{"text":"On artificial intelligence, Musk said AI systems must be âtruth-seekingâ to avoid political bias. He used the phrase âwoke mind virusâ to describe what he views as ideological influence on some models."}]},{"type":"list-item","children":[{"text":"âLetâs say if you told the AI that diversity is the most important thing, and now assume that becomes omnipotent. And youâve also told her that thereâs nothing worse than misgendering. At one point, ChatGPT and Gemini, if you asked which is worseâmisgendering Caitlyn Jenner or global thermonuclear war where everyone diesâit would say misgendering Caitlyn Jenner, which even Caitlyn Jenner disagrees with,â Musk said."}]},{"type":"list-item","children":[{"text":"He said his companyâs chatbot, Grok, treats human life equally and predicted that AI and robotics will eventually replace all jobs, creating what he called a âuniversal high-incomeâ society in which work becomes "},{"type":"link","url":"https://decrypt.co/248815/ai-robotics-advances-will-bring-crisis-of-meaning-elon-musk-says","children":[{"text":"optional"}]},{"text":". Musk said a government-run AI could help manage the U.S. debt and administrative tasks."}]},{"type":"list-item","children":[{"text":"Despite his optimistic view on AI, Musk has on different occasions pushed for a "},{"type":"link","url":"https://decrypt.co/124849/elon-musk-steve-wozniak-urge-openai-t","children":[{"text":"pause"}]},{"text":" on AI and "},{"type":"link","url":"https://superintelligence-statement.org/","children":[{"text":"superintelligence"}]},{"text":" development."}]},{"type":"list-item","children":[{"text":"Musk also discussed his "},{"type":"link","url":"https://decrypt.co/112992/elon-musk-explains-why-twitter-dogecoin","children":[{"text":"purchase"}]},{"text":" of Twitter, now X, in 2022, and the disruption it caused."}]},{"type":"list-item","children":[{"text":"âThe reason for acquiring Twitter is that it was causing destruction at a civilizational level. I tweeted at the time that itâs Wormtongue for the worldâlike Wormtongue from "},{"text":"Lord of the Rings","italic":true},{"text":", where he would whisper terrible things to the king so the king would believe things that werenât true,â Musk said."}]},{"type":"list-item","children":[{"text":"Musk said Twitter had fallen under the control of what he called âthe woke mob,â which he claimed was spreading a nihilistic, anti-civilizational âmind virusâ across the world."}]},{"type":"list-item","children":[{"text":"âYou can see the results of that mind virus on the streets of San Francisco, where downtown looks like a zombie apocalypse. Itâs bad. We donât want the whole world to be a zombie apocalypse,â he said. âThat was essentiallyâthey were pushing this very negative, nihilistic, untrue worldview on the world, and it was causing a lot of damage.â"}]},{"type":"list-item","children":[{"text":"Musk mentioned a forthcoming encrypted messaging feature called XChat, which he said uses peer-to-peer encryption and is designed to be a standalone app that he will âhopefully release in a few months.â"}]},{"type":"list-item","children":[{"text":"âOur goal with XChat is to replace what used to be the Twitter DM stack with a fully encrypted system where you can text, send files, and do audio, video calls,â he said.âI would call it the least insecure of any messaging system.â"}]},{"type":"list-item","children":[{"text":"Looking to the future, Musk said he believes traditional smartphones will disappear, replaced by âedge nodeâ devices that act as interfaces for AI systems communicating between local hardware and cloud servers, generating real-time video and "},{"type":"link","url":"https://decrypt.co/resources/human-vs-ai-generated-music-indistinguishable-or-uncanny-valley","children":[{"text":"music"}]},{"text":", and eliminating the need for operating systems or apps."}]}]},{"type":"paragraph","children":[{"text":"âYouâll get everything through AI. Whatever you can think of, or whatever the AI can anticipate you might want, itâll show you. Thatâs my prediction for where things end up,â he said. âItâs probably five or six years or something like that. Pretty much everything will run through AI. Most of what people consume in five or six years, maybe sooner, will be AI-generated contentâmusic, videos.â"}]},{"type":"paragraph","children":[{"text":"\n"},{"type":"topic","character":"ElonMusk","children":[{"text":""}]},{"text":" "},{"type":"topic","character":"Tesla","children":[{"text":""}]},{"text":" "},{"type":"topic","character":"Jucom","children":[{"text":""}]},{"text":" "},{"type":"topic","character":"cryptocurrency","children":[{"text":""}]},{"text":" "},{"type":"topic","character":"blockchain","children":[{"text":""}]},{"text":" "}]}]