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Elon Musk: “Human intelligence is somewhat plateauing and will actually…”

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Published September 10, 2025 | Video Starts at 31:01

As the population has increased and we've been able to store more and more information, human intelligence has scaled. Now human. Because of population declines and low growth rate, Human intelligence is somewhat plateauing and will actually decline. And my guess is that I think that we might have AI smarter than any single human at anything as soon as next year. Wow. (31:01–31:06)

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