Billionaire tech guru Elon Musk is both extremely cool and very, very weird. It’s a package deal. You can’t have the cool without the odd when it comes to Musk. Not that I mind. I find the fact he’s so d*** weird intensely interesting. But, even for me, his latest comments are very far out of left field. Apparently, the head honcho of Tesla, X, and SpaceX recently claimed that he is an alien.
I don’t know what’s weirder. The fact he says he’s an extraterrestrial or that I kind of, sort of believe him.
At an event called VivaTech held in Paris, France, which is a some kind of worldwide summit for tech start-ups, Musk was asked by the host of an event if he was indeed an alien.
Musk, 52, answered the question, “I am an alien yes, I keep telling people I’m alien. But nobody believes me.”
Well, I sort of do, Mr. Musk.
via The Express:
Despite being officially born in Transvaal, South Africa, in 1971 and holding US and Canadian citizenship, Musk joked about his extraterrestrial origins. He added that if he could provide proof of alien life, he would share it on X/Twitter the social media site he now owns.
Musk also issued a warning about artificial intelligence (AI), stating it posed a more immediate problem than extraterrestrials for humans. He predicted that AI would eventually replace all jobs on Earth, making employment optional and transforming jobs into hobbies as AI and robots would provide all necessary goods and services.
However, he cautioned that these AI systems need to be carefully trained to prioritize honesty over political correctness to prevent the spread of misinformation.
“It’s very important that AI be trained to be truthful and not trained to be politically correct,” he remarked during the summit. He then went on to express some skepticism about actual extraterrestrial visits to our planet, despite acknowledging that it is very possible alien life exists in other parts of the universe.
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As Musk is want to do, he allowed his imagination off the leash and speculated that one day in the future, probes from earth might stumble upon the “remains of long-dead alien civilizations.”
Musk also shared his lack of patience for conspiracy theorists who believe aliens walk among us while doubting humanity’s lunar achievements. “For some reason, a lot of the same people who think there are aliens among us don’t think we went to the Moon,” he remarked. “Which, I’m like, ‘think about that for a second’.”
He noted that none of SpaceX’s missions to low Earth orbit, which have launched 6,000 satellites, have encountered any signs of extraterrestrial life or unidentified flying objects.
“I’ve not seen any evidence of aliens,” Musk commented. “Not once have we had to manoeuvre around a UFO. Never. “So I’m like, ‘okay, I don’t see any evidence of aliens’.”
Sounds exactly like something an alien would say, doesn’t it?
Regardless, this man is one of the most interesting in modern society and guess what? He fully put his support behind former President Donald Trump in the 2024 election.