The Social Scene

All right, back now with the social scene, and we're going to talk a little Elon Musk right now, just for a second, as he sat down with the editor-in-chief of The Economist. But what I really want to do is just talk to Makia about her day. This is the first time we've had a chance to chat this morning. Welcome back. Thank you, my friend. So good to see you. It's been so good reuniting with all you guys around here this morning. Somehow rested, even with the newborn. Listen, I can say all that now. I'm trying. You're pulling it off. You're looking great. Welcome back. We'll get in more on that in a good day, in just a couple of minutes. But Elon Musk sat down with The Economist for a 90-minute interview. One of the things they talked about, advancements in AI and a prediction about the future. So he was asked, what do you think the world will look like in 10 years? And here's what he had to say. The most likely outcome is an age of amazing abundance, where anyone can have anything they can think of. This may sound preposterous, but, well, here we are in 2026. Let's see where we stand in 2036. The future is going to be very, very different from the past. There's no analogy or metaphor that I think illustrates the magnitude of change that we're going to experience here. Many of the world's leading AI developers from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, NVIDIA, Microsoft all agree with Musk that AI and robotics will create an era of extraordinary abundance, where the cost of producing many goods and services falls dramatically. But most disagree with his claim that money itself could become largely irrelevant within 10 years. Sam Altman from OpenAI said maybe money will be irrelevant eventually, but major economic changes would happen first. And I think you take it with a grain of salt that, yeah, I think that, oh, hi, Jacqueline. Hi. Hi, girl. You just asked for me and I appear. Right. That's what it is. I don't think you asked for me. No, no, no. We did appear. I think to Elon Musk's point that we, as technology advances, opportunities advance, like we've already seen what we can do with digital printing, et cetera, that, yeah, I think more options will be available, but I think it's not going to be options for everybody, right? I think we're always going to have people who can have potentially anything and a lot of people who will not be able to have all of those things. Yeah. It's interesting that point about money may no longer be relevant, or I guess at least the form of it. But not in an equal way, right? Right. Nobody's saying that everybody's going to be on an equal footing- Right. ... when it comes to opportunity. It'll be interesting to see how it continues to evolve. Definitely think you have to err on the side of caution with these types of things, especially with the advancements that we're seeing with AI and the rapid development of it, too. I think if it is any sort of change of that nature, you just have to be cautious. Completely different front right now. We've all heard the message in a bottle stories from over the years, and a Florida boat captain found just that, but I don't think it was what he expected. He pulled a message from a bottle from the sea. This was not a message left by a youngster years and years ago. It was actually ashes and a message from two grieving sisters saying, this is our mom. Throw her back in. She's traveling the world, signed Stacy and Jodi, and ashes. The captain tossed the bottle back, believing it was headed toward Turks and Caicos. He shared the discovery online, was able to connect with one of the sisters, and I'm sure that was nice for them to be able to keep tabs on where mom is in her travels. Wow. It's so interesting that people's wishes for when they move on. Some people choose to cremate it, or in this case, just travel the world posthumously. This is pretty unique and definitely a special find. I like this idea. When my grandmother passed away, she wanted to be spread in different places. She was cremated, so we took her ashes to different locations around the eastern shore, basically, of the country, and it was really special to have that moment, but I like this idea as well, because you get to just, who knows where it goes, and a little QR code to attach to it would be really cool as well, so you can kind of follow their journey, or maybe an air tag or something, so you can kind of see where they're going, and it keeps you close. It has some memories. I love that idea. All right. Well, we got a lot more. We're just getting started, so please do not touch that remote. They must see Good Day D.C., including apparently Tucker. Oh, McKee is back! I want a picture! There you go! Yeah! We'll get things started right after this.