Watch: TIME's 2021 Person of the Year elonmusk on how advanced technology can be like magic TIMEPOY
At the event—which also featured a panel discussion with Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen and Pardis Sabeti, professor for systems biology at Harvard University—Musk sat for a wide-ranging discussion that included democracy and Silicon Valley, though the conversation often returned to the subject of risk.
“I think it’s one of those things where you’re not going to get rewarded for [the lives that you save], necessarily, but you will definitely be blamed for the lives you don’t.” he continued. “Even if you save 90% of the lives, the 10% that you don’t save are going to sue you.”Elon Musk and his son X Æ A-12 on stage at TIME's Person of the Year launch event on Dec. 13, 2021.But he saw little risk on the horizon when discussing American democracy.
“If we stand back and say: O.K., is there really some point in history where you’d rather be—and by the way, have you actually read history? It wasn’t great,” Musk said. “The fact of the matter is that this is the most prosperous time in human history,” he continued. “We should be, I think, probably happier with the way things are than maybe sometimes people are.” —and the recent flights to space taken by rival billionaires Jeff Bezos, the Amazon founder, and Richard Branson, of the Virgin Group—Musk said that “I’ll go up at some point.
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic,” he concluded. “Or any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology.”
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