Jeff Bezos, OpenAI founder talk Elon Musk’s new government role

Elon Musk will be on Capitol Hill this morning to meet with GOP lawmakers about his role leading president-elect Trump's new Department of government efficiency musk's increasing access to the power is on the minds of a lot of influential leaders in both business and politics and some of them a number of them sat down with CNBC anchor and New York Times columnist Andrew aorin for his annual dealbook Summit Andrew good to see you great to see you good morning uh yesterday I did have the opportunity to speak with some leaders on Wall Street in the government

uh and in technology right here in New York City and the role of Elon Musk in Washington was a huge topic of conversation throughout the day he is of course the richest man in the world CEO of SpaceX also Tesla owner of X and the founder of grock AI and uh now his influence is headed to Washington The Trusted Trump Ally is going to be co-leading the department of government efficiency designed to slash the size and scope of the federal government yesterday I spoke with musk's direct competitors in AI open AI coo Sam Alman and

his competitor in space Amazon and blue origin founder Jeff Bezos both of them great entrepreneurs in their own right but a lot of questions about whether they worry about Elon musk's relationship and uh trust and uh connection with Trump in the second Administration I take it face value um what has been said which is that you know he is not going to use his political power to Advantage his own companies or to disadvantage his competitors lots of things not to like about him but it would go so deeply against the values I believe he holds

very dear to himself that I'm not that worried about it by the way Hoda you should know they founded open AI together oh so for him to say that wow uh is something uh meantime I also sat down with former President Bill Clinton who said he believes the Biden Administration could have done more to embrace musk over the last four years ahead of the election this dealbook Summit Andrew I mean you had everybody there we don't we don't know how you prepared for all those interviews you influential people even Prince Harry had conversation with him

we did uh and and that was fascinating unto itself wide- ranging interview with the Duke of Sussex among the topics that we discussed his upcoming trial against rert Murdoch how he wrestles with the constant media coverage and his life now in the United States I very much enjoy uh living here and and and bringing my kids up here it's uh it's a part of um part of my life that I never thought I was I was going to live um and I feel as though it's the life that my mom wanted for me um and

to be able to do uh the things that I am able to do with my kids that I undoubtedly wouldn't be able to do in the UK um is is is huge I don't think he's going back to the UK anytime soon I also should tell you I asked him about the dangers of social media particularly for children Prince Harry pointed to the US surgeon general's warning calling it a public safety issue saying he's concerned by what he called a lack of accountability for the industry and we often we also talked by the way about

his relationship with Megan Markle because there are a lot of speculation he was in New York yesterday she's in LA and everybody was Buzz you went all Today Show People Magazine on it of course Andrew we've never been so proud of you we went we wanted to know everything so what did he say all rumors all crazy and he said they he effectively said they everybody thinks we've been divorced like 12 times fair enough wow all right thanks you appreciate it hey thanks for watching don't miss the Today's Show every weekday at 11:00 a.m. eastern

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