Elon Musk

Technology entrepreneur, investor, and engineer

Elon Reeve Musk FRS is a technology entrepreneur, investor, and engineer. He holds South African, Canadian, and U.S. citizenship and is the founder, CEO, and chief engineer/designer of SpaceX; co-founder, CEO, and product architect of Tesla, Inc.; co-founder of Neuralink; founder of The Boring Company; co-founder and initial co-chairman of OpenAI; and co-founder of PayPal. In December 2016, he was ranked 21st on the Forbes list of The World's Most Powerful People, and was ranked (co-)first on the Forbes list of the Most Innovative Leaders of 2019. He has a net worth of $22.8 billion and is listed by Forbes as the 40th-richest person in the world.

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Elon Musk News

Professor defends "mediocre neuroscience" assessment of Neuralink demo

BBC - 01-Sep-2020

You need entrepreneurs, engineers and academics to make sustainable progress

Kernel develops mind-reading helmets to enable people to communicate

Bloomberg - 05-May-2020

Low cost and no surgery may make this an attractive alternative to Musk's Neuralink

Merging biological and artificial intelligence

Observer.com - 14-Aug-2019

Musk suggests using brain chip for treating neurological diseases, such as dementia

Connecting human brains directly to computers

Independent - 17-Jul-2019

Technology will help to keep up with the rapid development of artificial intelligence

We're on the verge of overcoming death

Metro - 14-May-2019

A great summary of the potential benefits are curing ageing

How the rich plan to survive the apocalypse

Guardian - 24-Jul-2018

Hoarding, and different forms of forced labor are among the future plans of the most powerful

AI researchers sign pledge against killer robots

Guardian - 18-Jul-2018

Over 150 firms agreed against developing A.I-based weapons, governments should be next

Elon Musk still thinks a Mars colony will save us from a future dark age

The Verge - 11-Mar-2018

Elon Musk talks about all the ways humanity may be doomed in the future. Thinks there is such a ...

Here are the ways Silicon Valley plans to conquer death

National Post - 03-Nov-2017

Billionaires are now pouring millions into longevity research. Upgrading the human immune system...

A Timeline for Humanity’s Colonization of Space

Futurism - 30-Oct-2017

Late 2017: Heavy Falcon Launch 2018: Preparing for Space Tourism 2019: Space Tourism and Observ...

Elon Musk Reveals More About Plan to Colonize Mars

Fortune - 15-Oct-2017

Musk clarified that, though he has shared images of vast Martian cities in his presentations on M...

Killer robots - third revolution in warfare

BBC - 21-Aug-2017

100 leading robotics experts are urging the United Nations to take action. A fully autonomous we...

City could be built on on Mars by 2062

Independent - 22-Jun-2017

Elon Musk says a city of a million people could be established on Mars within decades. Humans wo...

Elon Musk wants to enhance us as superhuman cyborgs

Kurzweil Network - 21-Apr-2017

Neuralink would allow for radically improved communication between people. Digital tertiary laye...

Elon Musk Says “Maybe Next Month” About His Neural Lace Project

INVERSE - 25-Jan-2017

Hypothetical computer interface that would be injected into the brain. Very fine net that would ...

Can an uploaded brain live forever?

TechRadar - 24-Sep-2016

Today’s supercomputers are nowhere near the complexity and power of the brain. But lots of teams...

3 Reasons To Believe The Singularity Is Near

Forbes - 03-Jun-2016

Ray Kurzweil published The Singularity Is Near in 2006 – as technology accelerates at an exponent...

FLI awards $7M to explore artificial intelligence risks

Kurzweil Network - 01-Jul-2015

Future of Life Institute (FLI) selects 37 global research teams to keep AI beneficial to humanity...

Microsoft head dismisses threat of artificial intelligence

Guardian - 28-Jan-2015

Eric Horvitz, head of Microsoft’s main research lab, has dismissed fears that AI could pose a thr...

Elon Musk commits $10m to keep AI beneficial for humanity

Forbes - 15-Jan-2015

Protecting his investments as well as the human race?