{"id":566057,"date":"2026-07-24T14:21:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T14:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/566057\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T14:21:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T14:21:20","slug":"lets-enjoy-the-ride-says-elon-musk-as-ai-risk-concerns-mount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/566057\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Let&#8217;s enjoy the ride&#8217; says Elon Musk, as AI risk concerns mount"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He also pushed back on suggestions he supports &#8220;far right&#8221; views.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Minton Beddoes said both data and her own experience of living in the UK told a different story to the image portrayed by the trillionaire in his X posts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You come see my country that I live in all the time,&#8221; she said when Musk offered to take her on a tour of the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Asked when he had last visited the UK, Musk said &#8220;a few years ago&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The trillionaire was also asked about his sharing of a film on X <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/film\/news\/elon-musk-posts-armie-hammer-citizen-vigilante-1236796152\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reportedly banned in Germany for its violence and anti-migrant message, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;My partner is&#8230; she&#8217;s half Indian, and I have four children with her,&#8221; Musk said of  his partner Shivon Zillis, an executive at his brain tech firm Neuralink.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;One of them was named after a famous Indian physicist, so I would say I&#8217;m not racist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Musk also said there were &#8220;senior executives of all races&#8221; at his companies, adding: &#8220;I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s any racism there&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But when pressed on whether he was &#8220;anti-Muslim&#8221;, he was less defiant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If people are coming to a country with antithetical views, I am against that,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m against rape and murder, I&#8217;m against the imposition of rules and laws that are contrary to what we&#8217;ve come to accept in the West,&#8221; he continued, criticising the media for not understanding or reflecting this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He also pushed back on suggestions he supports &#8220;far right&#8221; views. Minton Beddoes said both data and her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":566058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,61,60,80],"class_list":["post-566057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}