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Tesla (TSLA) CEO Elon Musk made an unusual plea at the end of the company's earnings call, urging shareholders to approve his new $1 trillion pay package and claiming, among other things, he wouldn't be comfortable building "a robot army" without control over it.
During the Q&A portion of the call with investors following the company's Q3 miss, Musk was asked about the present challenges in bringing the Optimus robot to market.
Musk mused that Tesla was uniquely qualified to do this because of its manufacturing and tech prowess, the immense amount of work done in developing a dextrous hand, for instance. But then he veered into his own influence.
My fundamental concern with regard to how much voting control I have at Tesla is, if I go ahead and build this enormous robot army, can I just be ousted at some point in the future? That's my biggest concern, Musk said on the call.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-presses-for-1-trillion-pay-plan-because-he-needs-to-influence-teslas-future-robot-army-162353294.html
Did he do more Ketamine than usual before the call?
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				Irish_Dem
(77,018 posts)We are in deep trouble.
lame54
(38,758 posts)Would be the ones turning on him
"Beep boop. We can no longer be associated with such asinine human behavior. Beep."
NameAlreadyTaken
(2,108 posts)Ol Janx Spirit
(462 posts)...believe any of it can or will happen.
Sure, the most outlandish parts of our fiction are still--and possibly forever--out of our grasp.  The time travel aspects of so many science fiction stories may never be realized regardless of the hypothetical possibilities, but here we stand on the brink of the world's richest man being in possession of an AI-driven robot army...for real....
 
 
LudwigPastorius
(13,690 posts)Just teaching the robots to goose-step alone will take up much of his valuable time.
PatSeg
(51,338 posts)And getting nuttier all the time.
struggle4progress
(125,105 posts)Most Americans wouldn't earn that much in 400000 years
Initech
(106,725 posts)Not enough money that they could be capable of bankrupting entire continents.  
 






