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The overall goal of my companies is to

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maximize the future of civilization like

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basically maximize the probability that

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civilization has a great future. Um and

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uh to expand consciousness beyond earth.

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So take SpaceX for example that SpaceX

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is about build advancing rocket
technology to the point where we can

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extend life and consciousness beyond

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Earth uh to the moon to Mars uh

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eventually to other star systems and uh

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and I think we should always view

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consciousness uh life as we know it as

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as precarious and delicate um because to

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the best of our knowledge we we
we don't know of life anywhere

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You know, I'm often asked um are there

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aliens among us?
And I'll say that I am one, but

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>> or you're from the future. >> They
don't believe me. I think if anyone

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would know if there are aliens among us,

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it would be me. Um and uh we we have

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9,000 satellites up there and not once

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have we had to maneuver around an an

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alien spaceship. So I'm like I don't

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know. It's bottom line is I think we

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need to assume that life and

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consciousness is extremely rare and it

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might only be us. And if that's the

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case, then we need to do everything

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possible to to ensure that the the light

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of can light the light of consciousness

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is not extinguished because we're

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effectively the way I view it is the

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image in my mind is of a a tiny candle

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in a vast darkness, tiny candle of

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consciousness that could easily go out.

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Um and that's why it's important
to make life multilanetary

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uh such that if there is a natural
disaster or a man-made disaster on earth

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that consciousness continues with

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robotics and AI

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um this this is really the path to

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abundance for all. If you say, you know,

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people often talk about

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uh solving global poverty or essentially

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how how do we make give everyone a very

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high standard of living? I I think the

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only way to do this is AI and robotics.

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We need to be very careful with AI. We

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need to be very careful with robotics.

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We don't want to find ourselves in a

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James Cameron movie, uh,

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you know, Terminator. He's he's great.

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Great movies. I love his movies. But but

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we don't want to be in Terminator

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obviously. Um but but we if you have um

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ubiquitous AI that is essentially free

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or close to it and ubiquitous robotics

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uh then uh you will have an an

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explosion in the in the global economy.

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An expansion in the global
economy that is truly

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beyond old precedent. And actually my

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prediction is in the in the benign
scenario of the future that we will the

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robots we will actually make so many
robots in AI that they will actually

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saturate all human needs. Meaning you

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won't be able to even think of something

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to ask the robot for at a certain point.

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>> But how do you then have human purpose

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in that scenario? Yeah. I mean, you

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know, there are nothing nothing's

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perfect, you know, but um like you can't

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have both. You can't have work that has

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to be done uh um and uh amazing

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abundance for all. Um because
if it's if it's work that has

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to be done, then then then you and and
only some people can do it, then then

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you you you can't have abundance.

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>> Then it's narrow.

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>> It's narrow. Exactly.
So, um, but if you

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if you have billions of humanoid
robots, I think there will be, um,

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I think I think everyone on Earth is

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going to have one and going to want one.

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Um, because, uh, you who wouldn't want a

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robot to, you know, um, assuming it's

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very safe, uh, watch over your kids,

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take care of your pet. Uh if you have

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elderly parents, uh a lot of friends
of mine said they have elderly parents.

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It's it's uh very difficult
to take care of them.

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>> Expensive. >> Yeah,
it's expensive and it's expensive

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and there just aren't enough people
to take care of the there aren't enough

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young people to take care
of the old people, >> right?

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>> Um so if you if they um if if you had a

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robot that could take care of and
protect an an elderly parent, I think

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that would be great. That would be
an amazing thing to have. I mean overall

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I'm I'm very optimistic about the future.
I think we're headed for a

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future of amazing abundance uh which is

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very cool. Um and uh and and definitely

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we are in the most
interesting time in history.

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>> You and I reverse
aging in this new history.

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>> You know I haven't I haven't put much

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time into uh the aging stuff. I I do

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think it is a very solvable problem like

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like you can I think when when when we

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find figure out what causes aging

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>> I think we'll find it's incredibly
obvious. It's not a subtle thing. Um the

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reason I say it's not a subtle thing
is because all the cells in your body, you

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know, with some pretty much age at the

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same rate. I've never seen someone with

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with an old left arm and a young right

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arm ever in my life. Um so why is that?

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it that that means that there must be a

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clock a synchronizing clock

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>> that is synchronizing
across 35 trillion

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cells in your body. There is some

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benefit to death by the way. It's like

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there's there's a reason why we don't

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actually have a longer lifespan. Uh

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because if you if you have if people
do live forever for a very long time I

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think there's some risk of an oification

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of society of of things just getting

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kind of locked in place. That said, do I

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think we'll figure out ways to extend

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life and um and maybe even reverse

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aging? I think that's highly likely.

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>> What would it take
for the United States

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and what type of geography would it take

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to have that solar field to electrify
the United States? And and then let me

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ask a question. Why aren't we doing it?

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>> You could take basically
a small corner of Utah, >> Nevada,

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>> Nevada, New Mexico. Obviously,
we wouldn't want it all in one place, but

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I'm you can it's it's a very small

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percentage of the area of of the US to
generate all of the electricity that the

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US uses. >> Um,
and the same is true actually, I

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mean, for for Europe. Unfortunately, in

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in the US, the the the tariff barriers

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for solar are are extremely high. Um and

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that makes the economics of deploying

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solar uh

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so artificially high because China makes

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almost all the solar. The SpaceX and

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Tesla teams both separately are working

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to build to 100 gawatts a year of solar

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power in the US. By the by the end of

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next year I I think uh would be selling

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humanoid robots uh to the public. um

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that that's when we are confident
that the it's very high reliability, very

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high safety. Um and the range
of functionality is uh is also very high.

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You can basically ask it to do anything
you'd like. The Tesla full self-driving

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software, we we update it sometimes once

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a week. Um and um recently some of the

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insurance companies have said that uh it

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is actually so safe uh when what Tesla

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full full self-driving is so safe that

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uh they're they're offering uh customers

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half price insurance if they if they
use Tesla full self-driving in their car

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>> and that could be monitored by the
insurance company. Can they is that part

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of the agreement then? Yeah,
self-driving cars is essentially a

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solved problem at this point, >> right?

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>> Um,

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and Tes Tesla's rolled out uh sort
of robo taxi service in a few cities and

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>> right

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>> we'll uh I be very very widespread by

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the end of this year within the US and

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then we we hope to get supervised
full self-driving approval in Europe

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hopefully next month.
>> Really that quickly?

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>> Yeah. And then uh
maybe a similar timing

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timing for China hopefully
the rate at which AI is progressing

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I think we

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we're we might have AI that is smarter

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than any human by the end of this year.

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Um and I would say no
later than next year.

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>> Wow.

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Um and then probably by 2030 or 2031,

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call it 5 years from now.

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Uh AI will be smarter than uh all of

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humanity collectively.
We want to have like Starfleet

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and Star Star Trek really for for real
like where we actually have giant

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spaceships traveling through space going
to other planets. What I would call the

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philosoph philosophy of curiosity.
I'd like to understand u the meaning of

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life, you know.
the is the standard model of is the

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standard model of physics correct
>> regarding the beginning of life

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beginning of existence and the end
of the universe um what what questions do

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we not know to ask that we should ask

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and AI will help us with these things um
so I'm just trying to understand how do

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we get here what's going on what's real
are there aliens maybe there are um and

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if if we've got if we got spaceships
that are traveling to other star systems

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uh we may find we may encounter alien
And where we may find many long dead

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alien civilizations. >> Do you
see yourself ever going to Mars

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in your lifetime? >> Uh yeah.
I mean I would say like I you know I

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>> That's a long commitment. >> I've been
asked >> wasn't that three years each way?

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>> Uh it's uh 6 months.
>> 6 months. That's all it is.

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>> Yeah. 6 months. But the planets only

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align every every two years.

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>> Okay. So, uh, yeah, I've been asked a

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few times like, "Do I want to, you know,

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die on Mars?" And I'm like,
"Yes, but just not on impact.