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“There's a 10 to 30 percent chance it kills us all, but there's a 70 percent chance that we live in an age of abundance that you couldn't even have contemplated 10 years ago. I'm incredibly optimistic about AI, but I'm being kind when I say it is a one in three chance of being wiped out by the end of the century.”

“My prediction is that in the next, I don't know, 15 years, we're going to have a ChatGPT moment for life extension, and that you're going to get some breakthrough in this longevity and life extension. That's going to make it where it went from this like fringe kind of like, oh, academic topic to just something that everybody does. ... There's gonna be a point where medical research on longevity is adding years to your life faster, like adding more than one year to your lifespan than one year.”

“AI, I think, is going to be tremendously deflationary. It's going to drive the cost of goods down, the cost of service down. I actually think that AI will potentially drive interest rates negative. Whereas if you have $100 in a bank account, you will be paying 1% to the bank to keep that money in the bank account.”

“All philosophy and religion basically like condenses down into three words, be here now. And he's like, whether it's Buddhism or it's philosophers or it's whatever religion you're looking at, fundamentally it's about presence. And can you be here now? And what be here now means is not just about like not checking your phone or being present that way, but not worrying about what happened in the past, which can't be changed, being anxious or even excited about what's happening in the future, which is not here yet, but like actually being able to center your mind around what is happening like in this moment.”

“If you are a poor seven-year-old in Peru, milking your cows on your dad's farm, AI is going to change your life so much for the better. That boy is going to have access to an education level greater than a Harvard PhD can now experience. He'll have access to that free education, a free AI tutor, and internet via satellite for near free.”

“This is why I have a huge chunk of my net worth in Tesla right now, is because that's obviously the biggest product in going to the biggest market in the world. It's just a matter of when, not if. To do that, you're gonna need data. That means the data is very valuable. If the robots are valuable, the data is valuable. How do you get the data? Well, obviously, you'd go to the lowest cost place, where you got a bunch of humans doing these hand-held tasks, and they're happy to take 100 bucks a day to wear the camera on their head.”

“And so I've been, by the way, I've tried this. I had a coach when I was at Twitch, they like gave you a coach if you're on the exec team. So it's like, here's a free coach. It's like, I've never tried this before. Let me try this. And I was very skeptical going in, because I was like, life coaches. Like I've been to enough Tony Robbins event to know that it's the biggest loser at a Tony Robbins event who becomes a life coach. It's like a third of the audience at Tony Robbins is like broken people who are, if you ask them what's their job, they say they're life coaches.”

“I actually think that the bottleneck will be the production of humanoid robots. It won't be the fact that plumbing is too difficult, because if you think about it, there's 5,000 humanoid robots, and they all plumb for one year. Instead of having one year of experience of plumbing, they're all going to have 5,000 years of experience because they're all going to know everything that every other humanoid robot knows.”

“It's very reminiscent of the Manhattan Project. If it was just America that was a hegemonic power and there was no Germany during World War II, maybe we would have taken more time and been a little bit more thoughtful from a philosophical moral perspective. But we didn't. It was a race. We were racing full steam ahead because we don't want China to get there before us.”

“That's what these guys are talking about, Brian Halligan and Jack Dorsey, which is that actually there'll be a central AI that's making the key decisions, allocating resources, figuring out strategy, coming up with the core campaigns of what you're going to do, the product, the road map, the building of it, and that your job as humans will be to feed context, feed information to make the brain smarter. ... The superintelligence is not going to be the junior thing to your average intelligence. The superintelligence is going to be the boss.”

“I met Jeff Bezos a couple of times, and he's one of the only Titans of Industry who I've ever met. When he looked me in the eye, he was never looking around to see who else was in the room. He was like, I was a little small fry compared to all the people who could be around. He looked me straight in the eye and I totally felt like we were connecting and being buddies and he was always really calm and really nice to me, and he never was trying to be like, all right, nice to talk to you.”

“I wouldn't be surprised if we see within 10 years, 50 percent of the jobs in America gone. AI will replace all intellectual capital. Robotics combined with AI will replace all human physical labor. Within 20 years, it is probably 90 percent.”

“I think Tesla is the best positioned to dominate AI and robotics. But I still also believe that those types of things that are human in nature and that can't be produced by artificial intelligence will be what's valuable. The flex might be a Honus Wagner card or human art because rarity will come down to human culture.”

“All these Indians in this friggin factory sweatshop are wearing cameras on their heads training the AI overlord that will replace them. You're digging your grave. You're digging your grave. ... Look at this meme of this. The guy sitting on the tree branch sawing off the branch. And this is kind of what we're all doing. ... Collecting this in a high-wage country like the US is very expensive. So enter India, where their team of 2,000 employees produces hundreds of videos daily.”

“I'm fascinated by it in two ways. One is the tricks, but the other is the business side of it. Cause if you just think about like what he did by rebranding as a mentalist instead of a magician is an all time marketing move. Instead of being yet another magician. ... No, no, no, he's not a magician. Those are magic tricks. We all, every kid knows, everyone knows how a magic trick works. Slight of hand. I'm a mentalist. And he became the number one mentalist.”