Elon Musk Makes Huge Announcements in Saudi

Elon, my dear friend, we're honored to have President Trump. We're honored under the sponsorship and guidance of his Royal Highness to celebrate a US Saudi and a Saudi US relationship that is 92 years old about how we move from an oilbased economy to an innovation-based economy powered by wonderful technologies that definitely you're one of the pioneers in this industry. We just showed to his royal highness some of your Optimus robots.

Yeah. And to President Trump. Let's talk about that.

Tell me about them. Uh yes. Uh so we just uh showed the several of our Tesla Optimus robots to his highness and President Trump and I think they were very impressed.

Um in fact, one of our robots did the Trump dance which I think was pretty cool. The YMCA. Yeah.

Yeah. To YMCA. Um so yeah, our robots can dance.

They can walk around, they can interact. Um, I think we're we're headed to uh a radically different world. I think a I think a a good world, an interesting world.

Um, my prediction actually for humanoid robots is that ultimately there will be um tens of billions. Um, I I think everyone will want to have their personal robot. You can think of it like uh as though you had your own personal C3PO or R2-D2 or but even better then who wouldn't want to have their own personal C3PO R2 ord that would be pretty great.

Um and uh I I also think it it unlocks an immense amount of economic potential because when you're you think about like what is the output of an economy it is productivity per capita times population or capita the uh once you have humanoid robots the actual economic output potential is tremendous. Uh it's it's really unlimited. Um potentially we could have an economy 10 times the size of the current global economy where uh no one wants for anything.

Um you know sometimes in AI they talk about universal basic income. I think it's actually going to be universal high income. Um where anyone can have any goods or services that they want.

Um, you know, a science fiction book recommendation that I have which I think is probably the best envisioning of an AI future is uh the the the culture books by Ian Banks. Uh, very highly recommended um for a uh non-distopian view of the future. Um now there obviously are some risks you know um which illustrate perhaps the if we don't do this right you know you could have like a James Cameron sort of movie um you know Terminator um we don't want that one um but uh but having sort of a Star Trek future would be great where we're out there exploring the stars discovering the nature of the universe um and um and a of prosperity and hopefully happiness that we uh can't quite imagine yet.

So I'm I'm very excited about the future and very glad to be here. Thank you for having me. It's our absolute pleasure.

And his royal highness was talking to you about his vision and his dream to increase productivity for the kingdom of Saudi Arabia and power up the region and the whole world with robotics but also on robo taxis. So how are we doing on robo taxis? Uh yeah.

So really you can think of a car or future cars as being robots on four wheels and um you know I think uh it would be very exciting to have autonomous vehicles here in the kingdom. Indeed. If you're amenable you heard the de from Elon.

He's bringing his robo taxi to the kingdom. Yeah. Um he has another announcement that he Exactly.

So, and I' I'd also like to to uh thank the kingdom for approving Starlink for maritime and aviation use. Thank you. Maritime and aviation.

There you go. There you go. Um so, yeah.

Uh so, so you're going to bring us robots to help us increase our productivity. Robo taxis to make sure that our cars and assets turn to turn into a cash generating unit. Yeah.

and Starlink. Starlink to reform our aviation and maritime. Yeah, talk about XAI.

Uh, absolutely. And but I should want to mention also uh something that may be worth considering is tunnels. Tunnels.

The Boring Company. I have this company called the Boring Company. Uh, which sounds kind of boring, but it's uh it's it literally bores tunnels.

Um and actually uh tunnels in order to solve traffic uh you you really need to go 3D uh with roads and by using tunnels you can essentially create create like like a wormhole like a like a wolf tunnel from one part of a city to another and alleviate traffic and we've actually already done this proof of concept in Vegas. So there are working tunnels in ve in Las Vegas that you can use where um that'll just it feels like teleporting from one part of Vegas to another. So, uh, I always say that, you know, my joke is like tunnels are underappreciated, you know.

Um, you know, it's a bit of a not always a hit, but um uh so uh um yeah, and then XAI uh is uh just trying to solve uh general purpose artificial intelligence. The goal with XAI is to have a maximally truth seeeking AI. Um and it's it's important to be maximally truth seeeking AI in order to understand the universe.

Mhm. So the the goal of XAI is understand the universe. Um to understand you know yeah what what is out there?

Um where's the universe going? Where did it come from? What questions?

In fact, I think maybe the biggest thing is what questions do we not know to ask? Like I once you know the question, the answer is usually the easy part. Um so the goal of XAI is to help understand the universe and um yeah that's that's the goal and and you know help people answer any questions along the way of course but um I mean that's that's my philosophy.

My philosophy is of one of curiosity just trying to understand the nature of reality. So I know you had a long day but we also have the honorable president and his royal highness hitting the stage soon. So this is a historic day, a partnership about how we could join hands together as we have joined hands in the past 92 years on building a factor-based economy to help the world and power up 20% of the energy mix which is very critical today to the AI intelligence age the digital age and how we have reform and with the intelligent age and we could not be more appreciative of having a lifetime partner and a friend like you Elon to the kingdom joining hands on XAI I Starlink and Robotics and Tesla.

Thank you so much on behalf of the whole and we look forward to continue the partnership. Thank you. All right.

Thanks everyone. Thank you. Thank you.

All right.