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Thank you so much. Elon, my dear friend, we're honored to have President Trump. We're honored under the sponsorship and guidance of His Royal Highness to celebrate AUS Saudi and a Saudi US relationship that is 92 years old about how we move from an oil based economy to an innovation based economy powered by wonderful technologies that definitely you're one of The Pioneers in this industry.
We just showed to His Royal Highness some of your optimist robots and to President Trump. Let's talk about that. Tell me about them. Yes. So we just showed the several of our Tesla optimist robots to His Highness and President Trump, and I think they were very impressed. In fact, one of our robots did the Trump dance, which I thought was pretty cool. YMCA, Yeah. Yeah, to YMCA. So yeah, robots can dance. They can walk around, they can interact. I think we're we're headed to a
radically different world. I think AI think a good world, an interesting world. My prediction actually for humanoid robots is that ultimately there will be 10s of billions. I, I think everyone will want to have their personal robot. You can think of it like as though you had your own personal C3PO or R2D2 or but even better then who wouldn't want to have their own personal C3PO, R2-D2.
That would be pretty great. And I, I also think it, it unlocks an immense amount of economic potential because when you're, you think about what is the output of an economy, it is productivity per capita at times population or capita. The once you have humanoid robots, the actual economic output potential is tremendous. It's, it's really unlimited. Potentially we could have an economy 10 times the size of the current global economy where no one wants for anything.
You know, sometimes in AI they talk about universal basic income. I think it's actually going to be universal high income where anyone can have any goods or services that they want. You know, a science fiction book recommendation that I have, which I think is probably the best envisioning of an AI future is the the The Culture books by Ian Banks. Very highly recommended for a non dystopian view of the future.
No, there there obviously are some risks, you know, which illustrate perhaps the if we don't do this right, you know, you can have like a James Cameron sort of movie, you know, Terminator. We don't want that one, but but having sort of a Star Trek future would be great where we're out there exploring the stars, discovering the nature of the universe and and a level of prosperity and hopefully happiness that we can't quite imagine yet.
So I'm, I'm very excited about the future and very glad to be here. Thank you for having me. It's our absolute pleasure. And His Royal Highness was talking to you about his vision and his dream, increased productivity for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and power up the region and the whole world with robotics, but also on robotaxis. So how are we doing on robotaxis? Yeah. So really, you can think of a car or future cars as being robots on four wheels.
And you know, I think you'll be very exciting to have autonomous vehicles here in the Kingdom indeed, if you're amenable. You heard the deer from Elon. He's bringing his robo taxi to the Kingdom. Yeah, he has another announcement. That he yes, exactly so. And I'd, I'd also like to to thank you for approving Starlink for maritime and aviation use. Maritime and aviation. There you go. There you go.
So yeah, so you're going. To bring us robots to help us increase our productivity, Robo taxis to make sure that our cars and assets turn to turn into a cash generating unit, and Starlink. Starlink to reform our aviation and maritime. Yeah, talk about XAI. Absolutely, and but I should want to mention also something that may be worth considering is tunnels the boring.
Company. I have this company called the Boring Company, which sounds kind of boring, but it's it's it literally bores tunnels and actually tunnels. In order to solve traffic, you really need to go 3D with roads. And by using tunnels, you can essentially create, create like like a wormhole, like a, like a wolf tunnel from one part of a city to another and alleviate traffic. And we've actually already done this proof of concept in Vegas.
So they're working tunnels in in Las Vegas that you can use where that'll just, it feels like teleporting for one part of Vegas to another. So I always say that, you know, my joke is like, tunnels are underappreciated, you know, you know, it's a bit of a not always a hit, but so, yeah. And then XAI is just trying to solve general purpose artificial
intelligence. The goal with XAI is to have a maximally truth seeking AI. And it's, it's important to be maximally truth seeking AI in order to understand the universe. So the, the goal of XAI is understand the universe, to understand, you know, you know what, what is out there? Where's the universe going? Where'd it come from? What questions? In fact, I think maybe the biggest thing is what questions
do we not know to ask? Like I once you know the question, the answer is usually the easy part. So the goal of XAI is to help understand the universe. And yeah, that's that's the goal. And and help people answer any questions along the way, of course. But I mean, that's, that's my philosophy. My philosophy is of 1 of curiosity, just trying to understand the nature of
reality. So I know you had the long day, but we also have the Honourable President and His Royal Highness Moussaidi hitting the stage soon. So this is a historic day, a partnership about how we could join hands together as we have joined hands in the past 92 years on building a factor based economy to help the world and power up 20% of the energy mix, which is very critical today to the AI intelligence age, the digital age and how we have reformed and with the intelligence age.
And we could not be more appreciative of having a lifetime partner and a friend like you, Elon, to the Kingdom, joining hands on XAI, Starlink and robotics and Tesla. Thank you so much. On behalf of the whole, thank you. And we look forward to continuing the partnership. Thank you. All right, Thanks everyone. Thank you. Thank you. See, all right, I. Want to say thank you so much for tuning into the show today. I really. Do appreciate your support.
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