Elon Musk claims that the US government had “full access” to direct, private messages sent through Twitter — a revelation that he said “blew my mind.”
“The degree to which government agencies effectively had full access to every thing that was occurring on Twitter blew my mind,” Musk told Tucker Carlson of Fox News in an interview that may air in two separate segments on Monday and Tuesday evening.
“I used to be not aware of that,” Musk told Carlson. A snippet of the interview was posted to Twitter.
“Would that include people’s DMs?” Carlson asked.
“Yes,” Musk replied without elaborating.
In a separate snippet, Musk warned of the hazards of artificial intelligence, saying that the brand new technology could potentially pose a threat to civilization.
“AI is more dangerous than, say, mismanaged aircraft design or production maintenance, or bad automotive production within the sense that it has the potential — nevertheless small one may regard that probability, however it is non-trivial — it has the potential for civilizational destruction,” Musk said.
Musk acquired Twitter for $44 billion last fall.
He then proceeded to put off greater than 70% of the corporate’s employees.
The Tesla mogul bought the social media site and vowed to permit nearly unfettered speech.
Elon Musk told Fox News’ Tucker Carlson that the US government rummaged through Twitter users’ private, direct messages.Fox News
Musk also sought to show the corporate’s previous management for its ties to government agencies which demanded that certain content be flagged and even banned.
Several journalists said to have been sympathetic to Musk released a series of internal documents often known as “Twitter Files,” which revealed the extent to which the social media site’s prior regime suppressed the spread of content corresponding to The Post’s reporting on the Hunter Biden laptop.
Matt Taibbi, the creator and former Rolling Stone journalist, reported that the choice to censor The Post’s story on the laptop was made “at the best levels of the corporate.”
A snippet of the interview was posted to Twitter by Tucker Carlson of Fox News (above).Fox News
Email and comments from former Twitter employees reviewed by the journalist showed that “everyone knew” the social media giant’s suppression of the story “was f–ked.”
Taibbi, who recently had a falling out with Musk over his ties to the newsletter subscription site Substack, also revealed how Twitter sought guidance from several government agencies before deciding to ban former President Donald Trump from the platform following the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021.
In one other bombshell report, Taibbi also revealed that the CIA had been involved in Twitter’s content moderation for years.
Bari Weiss, one other journalist who was given access to Twitter Files, reported that the positioning had secretly “shadow-banned” quite a lot of far-right users.
Musk has also been vocal in regards to the supposed dangers of the rapid advancement of AI in light of the emergency of ChatGPT and other AI-powered bots which have demonstrated human-like capabilities to formulate ideas and replicate language.
Last week, the Financial Times reported that Musk is putting together a team of engineers to create a generative AI project that may compete with ChatGPT and its creator, the Silicon Valley unicorn OpenAI.
Musk, who co-founded OpenAI but then left the firm after reportedly losing an influence struggle, co-signed a letter last month with a whole lot of other tech experts who jointly called for a halt in AI research and development.
The experts cited potential risks including the spread of “propaganda and untruth,” job losses, the event of “nonhuman minds that may eventually outnumber, outsmart, obsolete and replace us,” and the chance of “lack of control of our civilization.”