Elon Musk thinks an AI candidate could win US elections in 2032
Hindustan TimesBillionaire Elon Musk said that he believes an artificial intelligence candidate could contest US Presidential elections in 2032. During an interaction at the 10th annual Breakthrough Prize ceremony, Elon Musk was asked, “Who's gonna win the White House in 2024?” Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla and owner of X, formerly known as Twitter, attends the Viva Technology conference. Earlier Elon Musk talked about of AI's influence on elections and said that "if AI is smart enough, it could undermine democracy". He said, “If you define AGI as smarter than the smartest human, I think it's probably next year, within two years.” The billionaire also said that lack of chips is hampering training of xAI's Grok 2 which is Elon Musk's AI initiative that was introduced as a rival to OpenAI's ChatGPT.