The Aporia
The Aporia
17 articles about 17 events for “Elon Musk's Influence and Power” in Technology.
“In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Dan Williams discuss whether AI is a genuinely transformative technology or just another tool, how the temptation to outsource thinking to AI may be eroding the cognitive skills of young people, and why the…”
“Social media decentralized the information environment and weakened the influence of expert opinion.”
““Elon Musk has bought his way into the favor of President Trump and with it, unlimited riches and lucrative government contracts in the space industry,””
“The regulator is already facing a wave of legal actions from tech companies challenging its powers including the Instagram operator Meta, as well as TikTok and X, owned by Elon Musk’s SpaceX group.”
“Elon Musk, the chief executive of Tesla and founder of SpaceX, responded to Anthropic’s plans for a public benefit fund on social media by pledging to give some of his own shares away.”
“After nearly nine years of waiting, Elon Musk finally showed the world what his redesigned Roadster can do.”
“Elon Musk calls this “the age of abundance”, and Jeff Bezos predicted last week that a likely outcome of wide AI adoption would be the average person working just three days a week.”
“Elon Musk’s accusation that powerful Indian business interests are blocking Starlink’s entry into India has sparked a political row, but analysts say the dispute also highlights security concerns, regulatory hurdles and strategic calculations shaping the…”
“For a while there, every day brought some fresh outrage from Elon Musk: inciting dangerous harassment of his former employees; rigging the platform against journalists and their work; posting support for anti-semitic conspiracy theories; dismantling the…”
“Ted Cruz (R-TX) told ABC’s The View that he had asked Tesla CEO Elon Musk on his podcast, “‘OK, what are the odds that AI destroys humanity?’ And he looked at me and said, ‘10-20 percent.’ And I’m like, ‘holy crap.’””
“Shortly after Amodei’s essay, his position was endorsed by Sam Altman of OpenAI, Elon Musk of xAI, Demis Hassabis of Google DeepMind, and Satya Nadella of Microsoft.”
“Days later, Anthropic’s chief executive, Dario Amodei, called for a slowdown in the pace of cutting-edge AI development – a move that was immediately supported by OpenAI, Google and Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX.”
“Two of his fiercest rivals, Elon Musk of SpaceXAI and Sam Altman of OpenAI, said they agreed decelerating was necessary; Altman announced that because of safety concerns his company wouldn’t go public this year.”
“Elon Musk turned wealth, control of a major communications platform, and his relationship with President Donald Trump into direct political influence and (for a while) operational powers at the widely detested layoff project known as DOGE.”
“To take us down the rabbit hole, I’m joined by my colleague, Intercept reporter Sam Biddle, a senior technology reporter who focuses on issues of surveillance, privacy, and corporate power.”
“… partly because actually creating privacy in the modern age seems like a hopeless task; to a rounding error, all of American society has welcomed Big Brother into their pockets, turned on “track location”, accepted cookies, uploaded their nudes to Snapchat,…”
“What is more realistic is the situation the Ukrainians found themselves in after 2022, when they were invaded by Russia—all of a sudden they’re confronting a much more powerful enemy, and they really have to rely on their own wits to do that.”