For Musk, the threat of superintelligence was only one thing among many. His main concern, it seemed, was maximum attention. “He is a super-busy man, and he doesn’t have time to dig into the nuances of the issues, but he understands the basic outlines of the problem,” Tallinn says. “He also genuinely enjoys the press attention, which translates to his very slogan-y tweets, et cetera. There is a symbiosis between Elon and the press that annoys many AI researchers, and that is the price the community has to pay.”
