Elon Musk Talks Cars And Humanity's Fate With Governors

Tesla CEO Elon Musk warned a bipartisan gathering of U.S. governors on Saturday (15) that government regulation of artificial intelligence is needed because it’s a “fundamental risk to the existence of human civilization.”

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But first, he asked for some governors to lift a different kind of regulation: state franchise dealership laws that ban the direct sale of his company’s electric cars to consumers.

Musk spoke broadly about solar energy, space travel, self-driving cars and other emerging technology during a question-and-answer session at the summer conference of the National Governors Association in Rhode Island.

He also met privately with some governors, including Louisiana Democrat John Bel Edwards, who recently signed a law that Musk’s Palo Alto, California-based company says blocks it from selling cars there.