Elon Musk takes another trip to Europe to make his claims about Twitter globally heard. The Tesla and SpaceX boss spoke at the VivaTech conference in France about his breakthrough with Twitter. Once again, he brought people’s attention to the need to regulate artificial intelligence before it overrides our political, economic, and social systems.
Addressing the multitude at the tech conference, Elon Musk also spoke about the decision to buy Twitter and how his acquisition has saved the world from a social evil. The former Twitter CEO also praised the newly installed CEO Linda Yaccarino and how she’ll be a catalyst in bringing more advertising revenue to the platform.
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Elon Musk Talks All Things Artificial Intelligence And Twitter At The VivaTech Conference
Elon Musk spoke to an audience of more than 4000 attendees at the VivaTech conference about purchasing Twitter to bring social harmony. The Former Twitter CEO believes it had a corrosive effect on society he’s hoping to erase. Musk confidently said he had improved most users’ experience with the platform. He also spoke highly of the new Twitter CEO Linda Yaacarino. He thinks she has done a “great job” managing “advertisers’ concerns” about posting ads.
The heart of this discussion was artificial intelligence. Musk, who’s been vocal about distrust of AI, reminded the room about how unchecked AI could be the end of the world as we know it. Musk said, “If we are not careful with creating artificial general intelligence, we could have potentially a catastrophic outcome.” Without mentioning specifics, he called for the need for AI regulation.
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The Case Against Elon Musk’s Twitter Acquisition
In November 2022, Elon Musk bought Twitter for a whopping price of $44 billion. What attracted the tech billionaire to the microblogging platform was its democratic platform for all voices in the community. He promised it would remain the same stronghold of democratic opinion. But one can argue things have become much worse. Since taking over, Elon Musk fired 200 staff workers. Moreover, Twitter’s value has plummeted to $20 billion.
Two of his high-level executives, Ella Irwin and A.J. Brown, left recently over the difference of opinions regarding content moderation. Musk got in trouble by sharing an anti-trans documentary ‘What Is A Woman?’. His support of former Fox News host Tucker Carlson has added to the list of reasons people have started losing faith in Twitter. Once a beloved platform, Twitter is slowly becoming the hotbed for right-wing content.
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