Elon Musk discontinued playing chess as a child, anticipating computers' eventual superiority due to the game's limited degrees of freedom. Despite AI

In a familiar critique of corporate structures, Musk also weighed in on the ideal environment for fostering such long-term, existentially focused AI. He declared, “For long-term optimization, it is better to be a private than a public company, as the latter is punished for long-term optimization beyond the reward cycle of stock portfolio managers.”