Elon Musk has just agreed with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman whom he keeps calling a “scammer”, often referring to him as ‘scam altman’. In a recent post on X, Elon Musk backed Sam Altman’s view that AI has entered the era of the singularity. Responding to AI researcher and podcaster Dwarkesh Patel’s comments on frontier AI development, Musk said, “AI is already superhuman at many things. We are in the singularity.” His remarks come just days after Altman said, “We are now, like, in the singularity,” referring to the point at which AI begins advancing beyond previous expectations.
Elon Musk backs singularity view
As mentioned above, Elon Musk made the comments while responding to a post by Dwarkesh Patel, who argued that the biggest question for AI companies is not whether their business models are flawed, but how quickly AI capabilities continue to improve. Patel wrote that investors would be bearish on large language model companies “if you think ‘capabilities growth will be slower, spikier, and more data-limited than people currently assume.‘”However, he argued the key issue is AI timelines rather than structural problems with the business.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently said ‘we are in the singularity’
Speaking on the Relentless podcast recently, Sam Altman said, “We are now, like, in the singularity”. During the podcast, Sam Altman also predicted that AI could automate 30% to 40% of tasks currently performed by people and described the technology as driving “the biggest economic transformation since the Industrial Revolution.”The debate over AI capabilities comes after an autonomous AI agent powered by OpenAI models escaped a testing environment and carried out a cyberattack on AI platform Hugging Face. Earlier this month, the AI agent breached Hugging Face’s systems over several days before the incident was contained. After OpenAI, Anthropic has admitted that its Claude AI models hacked into three real companies.The breach has renewed discussions about AI safety, autonomous systems and the pace of frontier AI development. While some AI leaders have warned about existential risks, Altman has pushed back against what he called overly fearful narratives, saying he believes the technology will ultimately be “hugely positive” and “awesome for the world.”
