Lily Jamali

Holocaust denial, right? Yeah, there's Holocaust denial. There is this Mecca Hitler incident from last year. And all of this is a product of the parameters that are being set by XAI. So it's not an accident. And so that's why, in addition to those probes happening in Europe, there are several dozen attorneys general here in the United States. These are U.S. states that are taking...

action against XAI after Grock was involved in generating all these sexualized deepfakes. Elon Musk's response has consistently been that authorities are looking for any excuse that they can for censorship.

Kuten sanoit, se on satelliittinen internet-yhteisö. Se on SpaceXin osa, joka on Muskin rakennusyhteisö. Starlink voi olla Elon Muskin empiirin tärkein osa, vaikka se ei saa kuvausta, jota Tesla ja SpaceX saavat.

Viimeisen vuoden aikana Musk on laajennettu tuhansia satelliitteja low-earth-orbitiin. Siinä on nyt noin 10 000 satelliittia. Se on periaatteessa suurin osa satelliittista, jotka ovat nyt sattumassa sattumassa.

So he's the clear industry leader when it comes to satellites in low Earth orbit? He is the clear industry leader, exactly. And you can sometimes even spot them at night. They look kind of like a string of stars that are tethered together, shooting across the sky. That's Starlink.

Starlinkin käyttäjät saavat tällaisia yksiköitä, tällaisia yksiköitä. Se on yksiköinen antena. Ja sinä voit saada interneti jokaisella paikalla käyttämällä sitä. Starlink on saanut huolta

Providing internet on airlines. It's also in places that are sort of considered underserved markets. So here in the US, that would be rural areas. It's sometimes one of those early services that are provided to people who have just been through a natural disaster, where the traditional infrastructure around them has just been destroyed. And so it's out there, but maybe not everybody has heard of it.

It has become, it seems, so central to how so many people around the world do access the internet. You're not wrong about that, Asma. Starlink has been used in war zones, and I think that's a pretty important point to dwell on for a moment.

It's actually that use in war zones that I think has generated the most international headlines around Starlink. So this sort of started towards the beginning of the war in Ukraine, not long after Russia invaded. Musk back in 2023 refused to allow Ukraine to use Starlink for a surprise attack that they were wanting to launch against Russian forces in Crimea.

Ja nopea konteksti on se, että Ruotsi saapui Crimeaan Ukrainan vuonna 2014. He nyt suosittelevat sen heidän terveensä. Musk huomioi, että hän ei halunnut mahdollistaa Ukrainoille tilannetta, koska hän oli huolissani, että Ruotsi vastaisi käyttämään nukleeripäästä.

And then more recently, Musk denied Russian forces access to Starlink after Ukraine's defense minister asked him to block them from using it. So now he's sort of on the other side, right? So at times over the course of the war, he has restricted Starlink's use, you're saying both to Ukraine and to Russia, right?

Tämä on ymmärryksemme. Se on myös tapahtunut muissa paikoissa maailmaa. Aiemmin tänä vuonna Musk päätti tehdä Starlinkin avaamiseen Venäjällisiin. Aikaisemmin USA katsottiin Nicolas Maduroa, Venäjällisen presidentin. Se tuli uudestaan, kun Musk oli yössä presidentin Donald Trumpin kanssa. Siinä näemme mahdollisen poliittisen vaikutuksen.

He's also made it available in Iran after a prolonged internet blackout by the regime there. But people use Starlink in Iran at their own risk. They can be imprisoned for using it or for even helping distribute it. So bottom line here is that Starlink is providing this vital service, but one man, this private citizen, who sometimes makes questionable choices to a lot of people, is the one who gets to decide who gets access to the internet and who doesn't.

Rely on people who are at times are connecting via Starlink to be able to tell us what's going on inside the country over the last couple of months. That's right. And I think, you know, it's interesting that you bring this up because during the Musk versus Altman trial that I've been covering, you kind of get this sense from Musk that and I don't think this is new. I've again been following him for a number of years now, but you get this sense from him that he thinks of himself as one of the good guys.

Jäseni sanoi, että uskon, että se oli Muskin tutkija, koska he olivat miettivässä, onko ihmisen käännöksen ajatuksena aiheuttanut. Onko se osa kokemuksesta, että he jätäisivät Muskin puhumaan siitä. Hän sanoi, että emme ymmärrä, että kaikki haluavat Elon Muskin kontrollista tällaisesta vahvasta teknologiasta.

He might think he is a good steward, but a lot of people who watch him don't agree with that, was the point that she was making. I think that that argument about AI and human extinction and who gets to control this important technology is equally applicable to Starlink and the power to control human connectivity to the internet around the world.

But the one thing that was very confusing to me about this announcement is that I read these satellites are envisioned in some ways to allow Starlink to create data centers in space. Can you explain that? That's right. Musk is launching new satellites into low Earth orbit all the time. It helps that he owns a rocket company, SpaceX, as he's doing this. But what he wants to do seemingly is to create this footprint.

He already has a fairly sizable one, but to expand that footprint to grow to a million satellites as part of a plan to build these data centers in space. We learned about this plan from an announcement that Musk made back in March. The plan is to have SpaceX put these data centers into orbit around the world. They would use power from the sun.

Ja, you know, Musk is kind of trying to sidestep one of the main constraints to developing AI and to having people use it here on Earth. And that is power, access to enough electricity. These are really energy intensive processes. So Musk has talked about how space has the advantage that it's always sunny.

Okay, but is it tested? Do we know that a data center in space could actually work? We don't know that. There are a lot of things that could go wrong. We don't know if these data centers in space are cost effective. It could be incredibly expensive. So it's worth noting that this is all happening as SpaceX is preparing to IPO soon, to publicly list with a valuation of more than a trillion dollars, possibly as much as two trillion dollars.