Elon Musk: “Our Civilization Will End Someday — We Just Don’t Want It to Be Anytime Soon”

Elon Musk: At some point, our civilization will come to an end. We just don't want it to be anytime soon.

“There's been so many civilizations that have risen and fallen, many that we just don't have much of a record of. Like I mentioned, the ancient Sumerians, their language was forgotten for a long time until it was finally decoded only in the last two, three hundred years. So, for several thousand years nobody understood what those tablets meant because they were the ruins of a long-dead civilization and there are many long-dead civilizations, at some point our civilization will come to an end, too. We just don't want it to be anytime soon.”

Interview at the Milken Institute, May 6, 2024