Elon Musk: A future worth getting excited about | TED |

 

Apr 17, 2022

What's on Elon Musk's mind? In this exclusive conversation with head of TED Chris Anderson, Musk details how the radical new innovations he's working on -- Tesla's intelligent humanoid robot Optimus, SpaceX's otherworldly Starship and Neuralink's brain-machine interfaces, among others -- could help maximize the lifespan of humanity and create a world where goods and services are abundant and accessible for all. It's a compelling vision of a future worth getting excited about. (Recorded at the Tesla Texas Gigafactory on April 6, 2022)

 

0:14 A future that's worth getting excited about

2:44 The sustainable energy economy, batteries and 300 terawatt hours of installed capacity

7:06 "Humanity will solve sustainable energy." 8:47 Artificial intelligence and Tesla's progress on full self-driving cars

19:46 Tesla's Optimus humanoid robot

21:46 "People have no idea, this is going to be bigger than the car."

23:14 Avoiding an AI dystopia 26:39 The age of abundance

28:20 Neuralink and brain-machine interfaces

36:55 SpaceX's Starship and the mission to build a city on Mars

46:54 "It's the people of Mars' city."

50:14 What else can Starship do and help explore?

53:18 Possible synergies between Tesla, SpaceX, The Boring Company and Neuralink

54:44 Intercontinental travel via Starship

58:41 Being a billionaire

1:02:31 Philanthropy as love of humanity

1:03:39 Population collapse and birth rates as a threat to future of human civilization

1:04:13 Elon's drive

1:06:06 "I think if you want the future to be good, you must make it so."