Elon Musk

We should eliminate electronic voting machines. The risk of being hacked by humans or AI, while small, is still too high. source Unverified

Yeah. So, yeah, something needs to happen, or civilization’s arteries just harden over time. And you can just get less and less done because there’s just a rule against everything. So I think, I don’t know, for Mars, or whatever, I’d say, or even for here, obviously, for Earth as well, I think there should be an active process for removing rules and regulations and questioning their existence. If we’ve got a function for creating rules and regulations, because rules and regulations can also think of as like… they’re like software or lines of code for operating civilization. That’s the rules and regulations. So it’s not like we shouldn’t have rules and regulations, but you have a code accumulation, but no code removal. And so it just gets to become basically archaic bloatware after a while. It makes it hard for things to progress. So, I don’t know, maybe on Mars, you’d have, like, any given law must have a sunset and require active voting to keep it up there. I should also say, like — and these are just, I don’t know, recommendations or thoughts, and ultimately it will be up to the people on Mars to decide — but I think it should be easier to remove a law than to add one, just to overcome the inertia of laws. So maybe it’s like, for argument’s sake, you need like, say, 60% vote to have a law take effect, but only 40% vote to remove it. (2021) source Unverified

If I could put a pause on AI or really advanced AI, superintelligence, I would. It doesn’t seem that is realistic. (2023) source Unverified