about it. those questions are significant enough that we wanted to find someone who could provide a definitive answer. elon musk seemed like the right person. musk has been thinking about ai and worrying about it for most of his life. nearly a decade ago he help founded a non-profit research project called open ai. the pint was in the name. if we re going to have artificial intelligence, and apparently we are, it ought to be open, open to the willed world. that would help inner ensure it s used for good and not evil. that was the idea. as the years passed and musk town himself preoccupied building a couple of enormous companies, open ai gay gotway from him. as of tonight, open ai is nut open. it s not a non-profit research project dedicated to artificial intelligence to serve humatin, it is in fact backed by micro microsoft and control to some extent by the democratic party. elon musk thinks that s a problem. in fact, he thinks it s threat to human civilization. mount tantamo
organization with, and you don t care that much about sensorship then you can really let go of a lot of people, it turns out. [maniacal laughter] i had dinner with somebody who runs a dinner recently and heed i m really inspired by elon, i go the free speech stuff? he goes no, firing the staff stuff. how many other ceo s have come to you to talk about this? i spent a lot of testimony at work i spent a lot of time at work. they see what actions i ve taken. and, um, but i thing we re just at a situation at twitter where it was absurdly overstaffed. so it wasn t, you know, what does it really take to operate twitter? most of all talking about here is have a group text at scale. likes how many people are really needed for that?
he thinks it s going the wrong direction. he s correct it s been mismanaged for a long time. that it s stock has been exactly where it was during the ipo and that he has some better ideas. i think the free speech stuff gets pulled by the right and left in a way that s not what this is about. in a way, he does believe that. he likes to say outrageous things and just like to say them. sometimes, he s tweaking people. sometimes, he s unnecessarily cool. sometimes, he s just having fun. i know it sounds crazy, blowing off steam. i don t like a lot of it. but i like some of it. i think he s buying twitter. that s what he s doing. you have noted that he himself has used twitter previously as a performance site. yeah. i was thinking of those words when i saw the exact dollar value of his bid. you know what i m talking about. yeah, i think we can speak of it, he always makes a we reference. he said it was for the $420 a
pivot podcast and host of the sway podcast, kara swisher. great to see you. good to see you. what are they going to ask him in ask me anything ? what would you ask? yeah. what would you ask? what would your question be? i interview elon a lot so i ve asked him lots of things over the years. i think i d want to understand his motivation of why he s doing this. i have a sense of why. he loves twitter. he s one of its biggest fans. he likes to be at the center of attention. i think he s buying it because he likes it. it s like you re a rich person with a coffee shop, you like the coffee, you want to buy the company. it s not as complicated as people think. i m not sure he s going to do the things either side of debates about him think he s going to do. it will be interesting to see. i think the employees are nervous around the free speech stuff. they ve done a lot of content moderation. they re worried he suddenly is going to be like a king and make
is there any conceivable action or investigation that might back these bullies off a little bit on the free speech stuff? laura, they absolutely could do that. absolutely could do that. the president did sign an executive order urging departments to do this. to my knowledge, nothing has happened as a result of that. there s several hundred attorneys in the civil rights division whose job it is to look cout for these issues. we aren t seeing a focus on that. the consequences are real. i represented aa number of young people who have had legal battles because of these issues employees like james demoore and people like that withrk issues t the workplace. it can be very devastating. cause depression, anxiety, they can t any choice these made in college are going to follow them around forever.ho for every leif olson, there s others that have lost their views because of views that were demonized by others. we have to stop it, at least in the public institution, you have a right to not be