Elon Musk Tells Joe Rogan the Next Tesla Roadster Will Fly—And AI Is Coming for Everyone

The world’s (sometimes) richest man’s newest look on The Joe Rogan Expertise had the whole lot: flying automobiles, AI apocalypse discuss, and a facet of conspiracy. For 3 hours, he swung from promising airborne Teslas to alleging that an OpenAI whistleblower was murdered, whereas insisting he’ll by no means take his personal life and that empathy is overrated.

Musk and Rogan mentioned the latest Tucker Carlson dialog with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Musk referred to the demise of OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji, and stated the case “appears to be like like homicide.” He listed particulars he stated appeared suspicious, together with reduce safety digicam wires, blood in two rooms, a wig discovered on the scene, and a meals supply positioned shortly earlier than the demise.

“He ordered DoorDash proper earlier than allegedly committing suicide, which appears uncommon,” Musk stated. “It’s like, ‘I’m going to order pizza—on second thought, I’ll kill myself.’ That’s a really fast change in mindset.”



Musk and Altman co-founded OpenAI in 2015, and later separated over its path. Musk has since launched xAI and filed a number of lawsuits towards Altman and OpenAI, alleging the corporate violated its nonprofit constitution by way of its relationship with Microsoft and sought to steal firm information from xAI.

Musk took a second throughout the dialogue to emphatically say he would by no means commit suicide. “I’m by no means committing suicide, ever,” he stated, including that if any reviews claimed in any other case, they shouldn’t be believed.

A flying Tesla?

He additionally mentioned new developments at his corporations. Musk stated Tesla plans to debut its new Roadster earlier than the top of 2025, and that the car contains “loopy expertise.” He stated the automotive might be able to flight and described it as “crazier than all of the James Bond automobiles mixed.”

“My good friend Peter Thiel as soon as mirrored that the longer term was imagined to have flying automobiles, however we don’t have flying automobiles,” he stated. “I believe if Peter needs a flying automotive, we must always be capable of purchase one.”

SpaceX and Starbase

Musk additionally mentioned SpaceX’s Starbase launch website in Texas, which had been included as a metropolis in Might, and stated the corporate now delivers about 90 p.c of all mass despatched from Earth into orbit.

“It’s not that always you hear, ‘Hey, we made a metropolis,’” Musk stated. “That was once, within the outdated days—a startup could be go and collect a bunch of individuals and say, ‘Hey, let’s go make a city.’ Actually, that may have been startups within the outdated days.”

He additionally stated SpaceX goals to realize full rocket reusability inside a yr to scale back launch prices by an element of 100.

AI and the “woke thoughts virus”

On synthetic intelligence, Musk stated AI programs have to be “truth-seeking” to keep away from political bias. He used the phrase “woke thoughts virus” to explain what he views as ideological affect on some fashions.

“Let’s say for those who instructed the AI that range is a very powerful factor, and now assume that turns into all-powerful. And also you’ve additionally instructed her that there’s nothing worse than misgendering. At one level, ChatGPT and Gemini, for those who requested which is worse—misgendering Caitlyn Jenner or international thermonuclear battle the place everybody dies—it might say misgendering Caitlyn Jenner, which even Caitlyn Jenner disagrees with,” Musk stated.

He stated his firm’s chatbot, Grok, treats human life equally and predicted that AI and robotics will finally substitute all jobs, creating what he referred to as a “common high-income” society wherein work turns into optionally available. Musk stated a government-run AI may assist handle the U.S. debt and administrative duties.

Regardless of his optimistic view on AI, Musk has on completely different events pushed for a pause on AI and superintelligence improvement.

Shopping for Twitter

Musk additionally mentioned his buy of Twitter, now X, in 2022, and the disruption it precipitated.

“The explanation for buying Twitter is that it was inflicting destruction at a civilizational stage. I tweeted on the time that it’s Wormtongue for the world—like Wormtongue from Lord of the Rings, the place he would whisper horrible issues to the king so the king would consider issues that weren’t true,” Musk stated.

Musk stated Twitter had fallen underneath the management of what he referred to as “the woke mob,” which he claimed was spreading a nihilistic, anti-civilizational “thoughts virus” the world over.

“You may see the outcomes of that thoughts virus on the streets of San Francisco, the place downtown appears to be like like a zombie apocalypse. It’s dangerous. We don’t need the entire world to be a zombie apocalypse,” he stated. “That was basically—they had been pushing this very adverse, nihilistic, unfaithful worldview on the world, and it was inflicting a variety of injury.”

XChat and the way forward for AI

Musk talked about a forthcoming encrypted messaging characteristic referred to as XChat, which he stated makes use of peer-to-peer encryption and is designed to be a standalone app that he’ll “hopefully launch in a number of months.”

“Our objective with XChat is to interchange what was once the Twitter DM stack with a completely encrypted system the place you possibly can textual content, ship recordsdata, and do audio, video calls,” he stated.”I’d name it the least insecure of any messaging system.”

Trying to the longer term, Musk stated he believes conventional smartphones will disappear, changed by “edge node” gadgets that act as interfaces for AI programs speaking between native {hardware} and cloud servers, producing real-time video and music, and eliminating the necessity for working programs or apps.

“You’ll get the whole lot by way of AI. No matter you possibly can consider, or regardless of the AI can anticipate you may want, it’ll present you. That’s my prediction for the place issues find yourself,” he stated. “It’s in all probability 5 – 6 years or one thing like that. Just about the whole lot will run by way of AI. Most of what individuals eat in 5 – 6 years, perhaps sooner, will probably be AI-generated content material—music, movies.”