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Elon Musk: “We might have AI that is smarter than any human by the end…”

Featuring: Elon Musk, Senior Advisor to the President, Head of Department of Government Efficiency | National

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland — 1/22/2026

Published | Video Starts at 27:16

Are you more certain what's going to happen the next three years or five or 10? I don't know what's going to happen in 10 years, but the rate at which AI is progressing, I think We might have AI that is smarter than any human by the end of this year, and I would say no later than next year. And then probably by 2030 or 2031, call it five years from now, AI will be smarter than all of humanity collectively. (27:16–27:24)

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