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Elon Musk & Gwynne Shotwell on AI Risks and Peer Review, Starship, Terafab, SpaceX/Tesla Merger
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(0:00) SpaceX's Gwynne Shotwell joins The Besties! (1:45) Gwynne's SpaceX story, selling rockets, and working for Elon (6:45) Running modern day SpaceX: AI, Starlink, Rockets, and X (13:43) Direct to cell with Starlink, retiring rockets, competition (18:34) Data centers in space (22:00) Management at SpaceX (27:37) Elon Musk joins: AI's real risk, model peer review, what he meant by "Dario is right" (36:53) Elon and Gwynne on their working relationship, Starship's future (46:16) Terafab, Tesla, Flying cars?, merging Tesla and SpaceX (52:51) Lying AIs, how to do AI peer review right<...
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What's our latest timeline on getting to Mars? Getting to Mars? I think we'll put people down within a decade. Welcome Gwen Shotwell, the president and COO of SpaceX.
She's an instrumental, a really crucial person to the success of SpaceX. She's really the glue. You know, she's the glue to the tornado. Fail fast, learn fast, make your design robust.
I would be disappointed if we didn't have a settlement on the moon. The space and AI firm has officially made history on its $75 billion IPO, debuting with a market value of $1.7 trillion. The most efficient place to put it for its compute is on orbit.
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