Elon Musk has a very strange habit before going to bed.

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) said that Elon Musk recently revealed his habit of listening to podcasts before going to bed. The irony is that this “Man”‘s podcast specializes in talking about the end of the world, the destruction of humanity because of AI, and Elon Musk sees it as an “awakening of the mind”.

“I often listen to podcasts about the demise of humanity before going to bed,” Elon Musk admitted during a conference with the Milken Institute.

This podcast is hosted by Concordia University marketing professor Gad Saad, author of “The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense.”

Tesla boss himself admitted that he had read Saad’s books and that they gave Elon Musk nightmares about the prospect of humanity’s survival. The book discusses how human evolution affects consumption habits and eventually brings people to an “end”.

The fact that the Tesla billionaire often listens to articles about doom is said to be one of the main reasons why Elon Musk is obsessed with this topic.

During a conference in 2024, the Tesla boss said “I think there is a possibility that it will destroy humanity. I can agree with Geoffrey Hinton, the risk level is about 10% or 20% or something like that” .

Previously in November 2023, Musk said the possibility of AI going bad could happen when this technology could destroy humanity if it became evil or was controlled by bad people. This time, Musk also said that artificial intelligence will surpass all human intelligence combined by 2030. Despite the positive aspects, he acknowledged the risks to the world if the path to developing AI continues to follow the current trajectory.

“You’re developing AGI. It’s almost like raising a child, but he’s a super genius, with God-like intelligence. What matters is how you raise the child. One of the things I think It is extremely important for the safety of AI to have an AI that is as curious and truth-seeking as possible,” said Elon Musk.

Not stopping there, Elon Musk’s development of the SpaceX project to bring people to Mars is also said to originate from fear of destruction.

“100% of all species are likely to become extinct due to the expansion of the Sun, unless humanity creates multi-planetary life,” the SpaceX boss wrote on Twitter-X when he renewed his call for humanity to pursue a new path. multiplanetary life, emphasizing that it is the only way for humanity to escape the crisis of mass extinction.

In previous mass extinctions, at least three-quarters of species ceased to exist within about 3 million years. Some scientists believe that at the current rate, we could lose that number within a few centuries.

In just the next few decades, at least 1 million species are at risk of being wiped out, according to estimates in a landmark report published in 2019, but many scientists say this could be an undercount. too low.

German newspaper DW said that humanity today faces a number of challenges that lead to extinction. The first is food insecurity. Second, soil quality is also expected to deteriorate if important microorganisms die. Third, water shortage and natural disasters. Fourth, loss of resilience and more pandemics.

However, in the current difficult economic context, the warnings of scientists have not received much attention from people when the worry of food and money surpasses everything.