Elon Musk em Davos
Musk made his surprise debut at Davos, which he once considered a “very boring” thing, in an interview in which he criticizes Trump’s tariffs, talks about the future of AI and its robots, and says that aging is “a very solvable problem” — but that death has its advantages.
Tesla’s CEO, Elon Muskmade an unexpected appearance at the World Economic Forum (WEF), in Switzerland, in a debut that contrasted with years of criticism meeting with Davos, who went so far as to classify as elitistnot very responsible, distant from common people, and .
The intervention, in an interview conducted by Larry Fink, executive president of BlackRock and interim co-president of WEF, covered recurring themes in the Musk universe — from artificial intelligence to humanoid robots, including energy, space and longevity — with little concrete news, although with some ambitious deadlines and goals.
Musk interviews her with a joke about the “efforts” of Trump and his Peace Council, using a pun on the words “peace” and “piece”: “I was like, is that piece? A little piece of Greenland. A little piece of Venezuela“.
BREAKING: At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, even Elon Musk is poking fun at Donald Trump’s ridiculous “Board of Peace”.
“I heard about the formation of the Peace Summit (Board of Peace), and I was like ‘is that P-I-E-C-E?’ You know, a little piece of Greenland,…
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Musk then once again framed Tesla’s mission as creating “abundance for all”, arguing that the combination of AI and robotics will have a unprecedented economic impact.
The businessman predicted that the generalization of AI and robots in multiple sectors could greatly expand the global economy and make work “obsolete” in the long term.
According to Musk, “AI could be smarter than all of humanity collectively” around 2030 or 2031and the abundance of goods and services will be driven by a world with “more robots than people”.
Musk said that Tesla expects start selling Optimus to the publicthe humanoid robot presented by the company, “at the end of next year”.
The calendar comes at a time when investors and analysts are closely following Tesla’s investment in automation and autonomous driving products and services such as future growth drivers.
It was in energy that Musk has more clearly distanced himself from the recent North American political debate, criticizing US tariffs on solar panelswhich argues that they create artificial barriers that make investment more expensive and make solar deployment less attractive than it could be.
According to Musk, the US could generate enough electricity to cover its needs, including the growing consumption of datacenters for AI, using solar panels in a “small part” of states like Utah, Nevada or New Mexico. According to the businessman, high tariffs “artificially increase” costs, affecting the economic viability of expansion.
On a topic that is very dear to him, that of , Musk stated that the aging is “a very solvable problem”, but added that the death can also have “benefits”suggesting that a society where people lived forever could lose “vibrancy” or dynamism.
The tone fluctuated between technical and relaxed. Musk warned of the risks of robotics and AI, saying that “We don’t want to be in a James Cameron movie” and referred to the “Terminator” universe as an example of a undesirable future.
There was also room for jokes about extraterrestrials and trips to Mars: asked about his acquaintance and dying on the planet, he replied that “yes, but not in impact“, drawing laughter from the audience.
The presence in Davos comes at a time of scrutiny over the activity of companies associated with Musk.
Regulators and governments in different regions have increased surveillance of AI-generated content, including investigations and safeguards requirements related to xAI on the X platform.
At the end of the interview, Musk made an appeal for confidence in the future: he asked people to be “optimistic and excited” about what’s coming.
