Elon Musk Talks Auto Safety and Regulation of Artificial Intelligence with Joe

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On the Joe Rogan podcast this week Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s inner Ralph Nader was on full display with Musk promoting federal regulation of artificial intelligence criticizing the auto industry’s campaign against seat belts and safety regulation and praising modern airbags as “crazy good.” “We should have oversight of some kind ” Musk said. “The probability of industry capture is higher if it’s an industry body than if it is the government ” Musk said. And these are not necessarily friendly inmates.” “I’m not a fan of — let’s have the government do lots of things ” Musk said. Everyone agrees that a referee might be annoying at times but it is better to have a referee than not.” “I’m not saying that having regulatory agencies is some panacea or reduces the risk to zero ” Musk said. Nonetheless the good outweighs the bad and we should have one.” “It took a while before there was an FAA ” Musk said. And then somebody dies.” But the car companies fought seat belts like there was no tomorrow.” “Really they fought them?” Rogan asked. “For decades ” Musk said. But still the car companies fought seat belts for ten to twenty years. A lot of people died.” “Now these days with advanced airbags I think we might have come full circle and no longer need seat belts if you have advanced airbags.” “What if the car flips?” Rogan asked. “You are just covered — it’s airbags everywhere ” Musk said. Are you a toddler?” “Based on the weight?” Rogan asked. It gets better over time.” “A child could be sitting in the front seat?” Rogan asked. “Unbelted child sitting in a bad position – probably still fine ” Musk said. You want the airbag to inflate and then deflate otherwise you are going to be asphyxiated.” We got the lowest probability of injury of any cars they ever tested.” But then Musk admitted “the star safety rating is kind of bullshit.” Small cars are not safe.” “What about your small car?” Rogan asked. “Our Model 3 is not small ” Musk said. “What about the Roadster?” Rogan asked.

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