Toby Howell

That prediction might have something to do with the fact that he also teased the sale of Tesla's Optimus robots

to the public by next year.

He didn't hold back on his AI predictions either, saying that he thinks there'll be an AI smarter than any human by the end of this year, and in five years from now, AI, quote, will be smarter than all of humanity collectively.

It wouldn't be a Musk interview without a Mars mention either, and Elon delivered, saying...

People ask me, do I want to die on Mars?

And I'm like, yes, but not on impact.

That got a laugh, believe it or not.

You could describe the half hour he spent on stage as a collection of his greatest hits.

Mars, AI, robots, robo-taxis, all familiar Musk talking points.

But given that it bookended the conference, Neil, how did it fit into the broader themes that dominated this year's WEF?

And that fit very well into how the conference kicked off this year, which was Larry Fink, who was kind of running WEF this year saying,

If we're not careful, AI can absolutely exacerbate the global inequality that we have seen emerge over the past few decades.

That was a main talking point from the very beginning of the conference to the very end.

There was also a couple of doomsday prognosticators in terms of will AI be a bubble or not.

Brett Taylor, who is the former chair of OpenAI's board, said that AI probably is a bubble that is causing both smart money and dumb money to fund companies like crazy.

So that was definitely a buzzy soundbite.

Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, said AI could lose its social permission if it burns too much energy without real world benefits.

So those are some of the more

negative sound bites that we have.

One of the biggest founders that exemplified that was we talked to a cybersecurity founder and he's like, yeah, companies are getting attacked way more now that AI is a thing, way more sophisticated than ever before.