Elon Musk pitched sustainable power, mind implants, and room exploration in an short article printed in a Chinese journal operate by the country’s online watchdog and censorship company, in accordance to a translation from Yang Liu, a reporter for the Chinese condition press agency, Xinhua. (by way of WSJ reporter Karen Hao).
Formed in 2013, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) is in cost of producing and implementing procedures surrounding on the web written content, consumer data, and electronic safety. The CAC later made a magazine that, according to China Media Challenge senior researcher, Stella Chen, ordinarily features regulatory announcements and investigate on online plan. The journal was at first known as New Media in advance of it was rebranded as China Cyberspace before this year.
The July problem of China Cyberspace characteristics content from Musk and Ant Team CEO Eric Jing Xiandong, the enterprise that runs the Chinese payment company Alipay. Liu supplies an English translation of Musk’s short article in a publish on his Substack newsletter, Beijing Channel. Musk claims he was invited by the magazine to share his “thoughts on the vision of technology and humanity,” and then proceeds to explain and encourage the technologies used by the providers he owns — Tesla, SpaceX, and Neuralink — that he believes can “help achieve a better future for humanity:”
To that conclude, any location that contributes to a sustainable potential is deserving of our investment. Whether or not it is Tesla, Neuralink, or SpaceX, these companies were being all launched with the ultimate target of improving the potential of human existence and building as much sensible benefit for the world as possible — Tesla to speed up the world’s transition to sustainable energy, Neuralink for medical rehabilitation, SpaceX for earning interstellar connections feasible.
He also cites some of his loftier ambitions as illustrations of the variety of engineering his companies could (ultimately) generate, this sort of as a “self-sustaining city on Mars,” a way for people to “integrate with artificial intelligence,” and “fixed battery banking companies.” Musk also mentions the nevertheless-to-be-found humanoid Tesla Bot, and suggests that people may perhaps likely be able to acquire a robotic as a present in “less than a decade.”
In a tweet, Liu phone calls the article a “smart move” on Musk’s behalf, as it permits him “to seize the prospect to showcase the technological prowess of his organizations to Chinese officers and the community.”
“I hope far more persons will sign up for us in our battle to accelerate the world’s changeover to sustainable vitality,” Musk states. “I also welcome a lot more like-minded Chinese partners to be part of us in exploring clean vitality, synthetic intelligence, human-machine collaboration, and area exploration to create a foreseeable future really worth waiting around for.”
Musk’s physical appearance in a publication run by the CAC conflicts with his outspoken advocacy for free speech, the extremely thought that influenced his selection to invest in Twitter (which he’s now attempting to back again out on around an argument about bots). About the several years, the CAC has executed a number of insurance policies developed to censor and limit speech on the internet. The CAC’s Cybersecurity Regulation, for case in point, needs social platforms to choose down articles that incorporates “prohibited information and facts,” or else face punishment from the CAC.
Previous 12 months, the CAC pushed for the removing of the Chinese trip-hailing application Didi from application stores, and demanded that Apple eliminate a popular Quran app from its Chinese App Keep. The CAC also launched a hotline for end users to report “illegal” feedback about the Chinese Communist Social gathering, and just lately proposed guidelines that would demand social platforms to review each remark posted by customers.
