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Elon Musk Says There Is A 50 Percent Chance That We Are Living In A Simulation, And Calls OpenAI's Sam Altman "So Deceptive, It's Crazy"

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Whatever else you might think of Elon Musk, he is certainly not boring. In fact, he takes pains to act in such a way, firmly believing that this modus operandi is a necessary ingredient for the longevity of a potential simulation that all of us might be living within, as per the snippets from a very interesting conversation that the CEO of SpaceX and Tesla just had with Walter Isaacson on the podcast The Builders. Elon Musk says "any simulations…
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That there's a good chance that our world is just an expert simulation, that Ilon Mask has spoken in the podcast of The Builders. The billionaire believes that "if simulation theory is correct, any boring simulations will be interrupted, and the very fact that we exist means that we are an interesting simulation".

Ilon Mask admitted that the chances that mankind exists within a computer simulation could be 50%. He expressed his opinion in a conversation with the biographer Walter Isaacson in the Podcast The Builders. According to the entrepreneur, one time at dinner, physicist estimated the probability of simulation at 0 per cent, and the computer expert at 100 per cent.

Elon Musk claims there's a 50 percent chance we're living in a simulation, attacks Sam Altman by calling him sickly devious, and proposes new AI rules

Musk also called “Sam Altman” a “very deceitful person,” but described the employees of Entropic as conscientious and honorable people. The post Elon Musk: 50% Chance We’re in a Simulated Universe appeared first on Digiato.

In Walter Isaacson's podcast, Elon Musk reduces his estimate of reality simulation to 50% and proposes that rival AI laboratories check each other's models before launch.

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Wccftech broke the news on Tuesday, October 20, 2026.
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