Just the fact that Musk is in the conversation, and he's one of the most hated people on the planet, should give anyone pause as to whether we want these folk in charge of our future to any degree at all.
Now AI is likely just as, if not worse, than having a bunch of lackeys telling your farts, shits and piss liven up whatever room you're shitting in.
You’re technically correct yes.
I think op was also actually-correct. (For better or worse, that is the objective reality; Musk still has lot of fans)
Of course he has a lot of fans, he has a lot of hate too. That makes him a divisive figure by definition (I’d least hope we can agree on that).
I mean I guess we can disagree but it seems like common sense to me to want someone more neutral to be in charge of super mega important tech.
Maybe I’m the weird one nowadays as I tend to try and vote centrists for the same reason.
And (like Musk) can even be both (or more) all at once to a given specific individual (loved for the good he's done, and hated for the bad) and even pitied at the same time (for how far he's fallen), and feared (for the damage he can still do).
What about social structures and ideology that are deeply enshrined within collective unconsciousness?
There is no one is more dangerous than one who believes he is doing the right thing.
If you local librarian thinks He is doing the right thing he’s not going to cause massive war or destroy the economy and wipe out 2/3rd of crops.
Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. People like musk, altman, trump have unprecedented power in history - far more than the kings of medieval times.
Though I know I attracted all the downvotes for not agreeing with most Americans that Musk is the worst person since Adolf.
Dunno if I'd rank Musk's danger down - he screams a certain ideology these days. He might well believe he is doing the right thing.
Could I ask what you have in mind (I doubt there was a US bill for that; google won’t help me without knowing what to look for)
> HF 1606’s principal sponsor stated that this was an “intentional” drafting decision, explaining there is no way to distinguish between images that are nudified with and without consent.22 But any interest that Minnesota has in preventing nonconsensual “nudification” cannot sustain a prohibition on consensual“ nudification
Doe v. xAI [0], where it seems Grok was intentionally trained on CSAM, as part of the "denudification" tooling.
Currently... It very much seems that Musk believes that if a kid says 'yes', then that is consent. Despite them being a kid.
But, from a guy who tried fairly hard to get to Epstein's island, that's not exactly surprising. [2]
[1] https://www.plainsite.org/courts/minnesota-district-court/xa...
[0] https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Doe-v...
How could that lead to anything but misaligned incentives? This technology will never serve humanity when it is developed to inadvertently serve the monetary interest of a few.
But lying (e.g. “full self driving next year”) and cheating (too early inclusion of spacex into various indexes) and whatever dogde was, should explain most of it.
Connections with other disliked characters doesn’t help either.
He’s lost his mind IMO, from drugs and extreme social media addiction. As for the right-authoritarian “fash” stuff I’m not sure if it’s always been there or if it’s an opportunistic infection.
I still give him credit for helping push the EV revolution forward and for finally building reusable rocket boosters. The latter has been talked about and studied for decades before and is clearly the best way to make a reusable launch system but NASA and its “old space” contractors never executed on it. Probably because overly complicated approaches like the shuttle and disposable rockets were more short term profitable.
But note that all that stuff happened for the most part before the mid-teens, or at least that was when Musk made his contribution to it. I don’t think his mind is what it was.
If he’d died in 2015 he would be the GOAT. Die a hero or live long enough to become a villain.
Let's say for a moment that you "live under a rock" enough that you actually haven't got a clue why Musk is such a hated figure (not only just here, but across a huge portion of humanity)...
You should count yourself lucky that you haven't been absolutely assaulted by the monstrosity known as "modern media". You're one of the fortunate few. Enjoy your life. It's better than many.
The one that think he's doing the right thing at least do care about following some morale compass.
Elon, Dario and Altman are all terrible human beings, along with 99.99% of the rest of the ruling class. We don't need any of them, and we definitely shouldn't trust a single syllable that comes out their mouth.