Morning Edition · Saturday, July 25, 2026Published at 1:43 AM EDT · New York
Musk Says AI Will Soon Outstrip Humans by More Than the Human-Chimpanzee Gap
The remark comes amid intense scrutiny of the rhetoric labs use to raise capital and shape rules, with markets increasingly separating verifiable capability from framing.
Elon Musk has said that AI will soon be so far ahead of humans that the intelligence gap will exceed the gap between humans and chimpanzees, adding that even a stop button probably should not be pressed, according to an AI-media summary of…
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