Global Sustainable Energy | Elon Musk
Elon Musk has expressed worry about the advent of a digital super intelligent AI numerous times now. He has put solid solutions to the AI control problem. One of which is the merging scenario with AI.
But first Elon Musk, is focused on making sure humanity makes the transition to renewable energy, which is the first right step towards becoming a type 1 civilization.
Musk suggested that if we can’t achieve a self-sustaining civilization on Earth, our fate will likely be extinction.
Elon however has a plan. He founded Tesla Energy, a company that produces battery packs for homes, businesses, and utilities, and Tesla Motors, which produces electric cars. According to Elon the world would require battery production of 20 to 25 Terawatt-hours over the course of 15 to 20 years. The solution, Musk explained, is advancements in battery technology. Tesla’s new cell design is expected to reduce the cost per kilowatt-hour by half.
Elon Musk’s most important Company is Neuralink. His goal with Neuralink is to build ultra-high bandwidth brain-computer interfaces for human mind and eventually giving humans the option to achieve a symbiosis with artificial intelligence. This will enable humanity to avoid the extinction of the human race due to increasingly powerful AI advancements. Unpredictable consequences of AI is probably the biggest concern of the top AI researchers.
Being a Type 1 civilization means we would have complete control over all the energy on Earth. We would need to be able to model, understand, replicate, and control all the energy on Earth. It might take a few hundreds of years, but that is a small amount of time on the timescale of the universe.