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Elon Musk Sure Made Lots of Predictions at Davos

Aarian Marshall

created: Jan. 22, 2026, 8:57 p.m. | updated: Jan. 26, 2026, 5:53 p.m.

Elon Musk, the richest man on earth, is very good at making money. “We have 9,000 satellites up there, and not once have we had to maneuver around an alien spaceship,” Musk said. That did not stop Musk from repeating in Davos some of his most far-reaching claims about the way the product would change human life forever. In Davos, Musk once again mentioned his wish to avoid a Terminator-like future. By 2035, it will be “smarter than all of humanity, collectively.”Per usual, whether Musk gets this one right comes down to definitions.

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