The political left already hates Elon Musk. But the public's anger at the disruptive billionaire, Tesla founder and now Donald Trump's confidant is only going to get worse.
Musk's chances of success are: artificial intelligence This poses a long-term threat to liberals who seek to control not only the way we look back on the past—how our history is written—but also the political landscape in which we move forward. Masu. just the same Musk's acquisition of Twitter While breaking the liberals' stranglehold on social media, his growing presence in AI promises to weaken the left's grip on emerging technologies.
The Democratic Party establishment, led by the Biden-Harris White House, is not idly watching Musk's political realignment.
new york times report Musk's businesses “have been the subject of at least 20 recent investigations and reviews, including the safety of Tesla cars and the environmental damage caused by rockets,” the statement said. Many of these attacks are stupid. FAA delays A few weeks ago, a rocket test was conducted after a similar launch disturbed nearby bird nests. Never mind that the US is in significant competition with China to get humans to the moon, and that the rocket in question was commissioned by the US government to get the job done.
More madness against Musk's companies comes from the Justice Department. claim SpaceX has illegally discriminated against “asylees and refugees in employment.” In other words, SpaceX, a company involved in classified government work, is being sued for hiring only U.S. citizens or green card holders.
You can't make this up.
Leftists plotted to restore free speech by having the Tesla founder buy Twitter (now X); The infamous Twitter fileexposed efforts by federal authorities to censor conservative voices. Surprisingly, they hate him for putting electric cars on the map, for actually making their climate change ambitions a reality. Utilizing non-union labor To do that.
Elon also dared to criticize the governmentThis means that if the FCC had not “unlawfully” revoked the nearly $900 million it awarded SpaceX Starlink to provide rural internet access, the satellite kits would have “probably saved lives in North Carolina” after Hurricane Helen. “That's probably true,” he accused X.
Liberal anger over masks is bound to get worse. Elon may be the only obstacle preventing liberals from putting AI in charge of teaching children about U.S. history and economics, and permanently skewing the U.S., and indeed the world, knowledge system to the left. They will soon find out that there is.
Musk's increased investment in AI, which is rapidly emerging as everyone's go-to source of information, could paint the United States as a nation born of racism and sustained by exploitation and patriarchy. It is likely that progressives will be prevented from establishing a monopoly through historical revisionism. .
Musk has recently been busy launching his own artificial intelligence company, xAI. Raise another $5 billion in funding focused on startups in 50 billion dollarsJust a few months ago, it more than doubled its valuation. xAI's main product is the Grok chatbot, which will launch in late 2023 and was created to compete with the much larger OpenAI, creator of ChatGPT. (Musk co-founded OpenAI in 2015, but has since fell out Along with his partner in that venture, Sam Altman. )
He is currently in the middle of hunting. Tennessee data center and Arrange Nvidia chips Build an AI model. Although Musk is a relative latecomer, his extraordinary success in rockets, electric vehicles, satellite communications, and more suggests he is poised to become a significant player. In the same way that X has become a hated rival to Meta and TikTok as an information source, xAI will present users with a distinctly different view of the world and how it works.
This is not a conspiracy theory. With the advent of ChatGPT, reviewers complained that chatbots were left-leaning. The company acknowledged as much, posting that it was trying to address bias by modifying its models to be more neutral. The company stated:“Our guidelines specify that reviewers must not endorse any political group. Still, any bias that may arise from the process described above is a bug, not a feature.”
A study last year by several universities found that A.I. inevitably involves political bias. The slope is determined by what material is used to “train” the model and how the human author attempts to correct for its biases. Given that most academic documents lean to the far left, one can only imagine how the “training” will go. The bottom line is that it's nearly impossible for AI players to eliminate bias, even if they wanted to (which is not a given).
It's encouraging to see Musk emerge as a player in the AI world, as balance is important. As an article in MIT's Technology Review on AI bias pointed out“A chatbot offering healthcare advice could refuse to provide advice on abortion or contraception, or a customer service bot could start spewing offensive nonsense.” Just as it provides opinions, xAI will likely provide a similar diversity of opinions.
Throughout his business journey, Musk has developed a distaste for government overreach. When entrepreneurs are constantly tripped up by red tape or targeted by obstructive bureaucrats, they tend to accept and rebel against limited government. By agreeing to co-manage the Department of Government Efficiency with Vivek Ramaswamy, Musk will act on his newfound conservatism and commit to drastically downsizing the government. federal bureaucracy.
Musk is working to hold the government accountable and protect free speech in the United States, and he will now help protect the truth. It goes without saying that all of this is a huge (and important) undertaking. xAI is Scheduled to debut The third version of the Grok language model was released in December. Musk said it would be “the most powerful AI in the world by any metric.” Let's hope so.
Liz Peek is a former partner at Wall Street giant Wertheim & Company.
