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Elon Musk Discusses Tesla, SpaceX, AI Regulation, and Government Advisory Role at Qatar Economic Forum

Published May 20, 2025 | Video Starts at 19:23

So we're simultaneously in a situation where it is illegal to hire asylum seekers and is also illegal to hire asylum seekers. And The Biden's Department of Justice chose to prosecute us despite both paths being illegal. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. But my question is specifically about a regulator for AI, which you said three years ago was needed. (19:23–19:30)

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Asserts that the Biden DOJ prosecuted SpaceX despite conflicting legal requirements.

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“SpaceX will probably do 90% of the mass launch to orbit this year.”
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“SpaceX will do about 10 times as much as the rest of world combined or 20 times as much as China.”
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“At this point about maybe approaching 80% of all active satellites in orbit are SpaceX.”
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“Under the Biden administration, SpaceX was sued for not hiring asylum seekers in the US.”
Elon Musk Discusses Tesla, SpaceX, AI Regulation, and Government Advisory Role at Qatar Economic Forum | Uploaded May 20, 2025 | 18:47-18:56
“There are now 140 laws in South Africa that give. That basically give strong preference if you're a black South African and not otherwise.”
Elon Musk Discusses Tesla, SpaceX, AI Regulation, and Government Advisory Role at Qatar Economic Forum | Uploaded May 20, 2025 | 25:11-25:24
“160 billion has been saved [by the advisory group].”
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“Neuralink which has now helped five patients restore capability using the telepathy implant where they're able to control a computer simply…”
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“I'll be in D.C. tomorrow. I'll be there having dinner with the President tomorrow night, I believe, and then a whole bunch of Cabinet…”
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“Yeah, that's correct.”
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“Europe is our weakest market. We're strong everywhere else, so our sales are doing well.”
Elon Musk Discusses Tesla, SpaceX, AI Regulation, and Government Advisory Role at Qatar Economic Forum | Uploaded May 20, 2025 | 02:22-02:30
“At this point, we don't anticipate any meaningful sales shortfall.”
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“We're now back over a trillion dollars in market cap.”
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“Now [OpenAI] is they're trying to change that for their own financial benefit into a for profit company that is closed source.”
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“Yes, we've lost some sales, perhaps on the left, but we've gained them on the right.”
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“The sales numbers at this point are strong and we see no problem with demand.”
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“Sufficient voting control such that I cannot be ousted by activist investors is what matters to me.”
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“China will do the remain half, half of the remaining amount. So 5%.”
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“The rest of the world, including the rest of the US will do about 5%.”
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“130 countries are very happy with [Starlink].”
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“I don't currently anticipate SpaceX getting into the weapons business.”
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“Starlink may go public at some point in the future.”
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“Something needs to be done about the shareholder derivative lawsuits in the US.”
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“I came up with the name OpenAI as an open source and as a nonprofit. And I funded AI OpenAI for the first roughly $50 million.”
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“It's actually illegal for SpaceX under iTard International Traffic and Arms regulations to hire anyone who is not a permanent resident of…”
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“The new fields like artificial intelligence are under regulated. In fact, there is no regulator at all.”
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“If there's a single contract that any of my companies have received that people think is somehow not, was, was awarded improperly, it would…”
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“All we do is we review the organization to see if the organization has departments that are no longer relevant and then are the contracts…”
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“Any action that, that, that is as a function of DOGE is posted to the DOGE website and to the doge.gov or at, at doge handle on the X…”
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“The ability of Doge to operate is a function of whether the government, and this includes the Congress, is willing to take our advice.”
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“The parts of USAID that we found to be even slightly useful were transferred to the State Department.”
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“I think in terms of political spending, I'm going to do a lot less in the future.”
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“I don't speak to President Putin.”
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“I was on a video call with him once about five years ago.”
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“I challenged Vladimir Putin to single combat over the [X platform]. But I didn't talk to him.”
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“Getting starship to be fully reusable so that we, we catch both the booster and the ship, which would be the first fully reusable orbital…”
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“We'll be doing our first patient to restore sight with our blindsight implant, which is either end of the year or early next.”
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“We'll be launching unsupervised autonomy, basically self-driving cars with no one in them in Austin next month.”
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