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Founder of xAI, Tesla and SpaceX; posts regularly on AI, entrepreneurship and technology.
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Elon Musk
CEO of Tesla and SpaceX
Runs Tesla and SpaceX, which acquired his AI company xAI in February 2026, and owns X. One of the most visible public voices on where AI is heading and what it risks.
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Key arguments & positions
- Has called AI "one of the biggest risks to civilization" and pushed for regulatory oversight, while building one of the most aggressive frontier AI labs (xAI/Grok).
- Frames Grok as pursuing "maximally truth-seeking" AI as his safety strategy, contrasting it with what he calls politically biased output from rivals.
- Left OpenAI's board in 2018 and has since sued the organization over its shift from nonprofit to for-profit structure.
Accomplishments
- At PayPal: Founder of X.com, which merged with Confinity; served as CEO in 2000.
- Built next: SpaceX (founded), Tesla (early investor, then CEO), and xAI, which SpaceX acquired in February 2026.
- Role: CEO, Tesla and SpaceX (as of October 2026)
Papers & key writings
- Tesla "Master Plan Part 3" (2023) and "Part 4" (2025)
- No peer-reviewed AI papers — positions communicated mainly via X and company announcements.
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Timeline
- 2015Co-founds OpenAI as a nonprofit AI lab and joins its board.
- 2018Leaves the OpenAI board.
- 2023Signs the open letter calling for a pause on training runs beyond GPT-4.
- 2023Founds xAI and launches the Grok assistant.
- 2024Sues OpenAI over its shift to a for-profit structure.
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