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The man whose musings fuel Elon Musk's nightmares

The man whose musings fuel Elon Musk's nightmares
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By Tim HigginsElon Musk ’s bedtime routine is giving him nightmares.To hear him in public is to catalogue a running list of his greatest fears: end-of-the-world type stuff, killer AI threats and, in recent years, the scourge of what he calls the Woke Mind Virus. “I listen to podcasts about the fall of civilisations to go to sleep,” Musk said during an appearance at this month's Milken Institute annual global conference in Los Angeles. “So perhaps that might be part of the problem.”One provocateur, in parti...

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