Since becoming owner last October, Twitter CEO Elon Musk seems to be learning something new about the social media platform, daily. In a recent interview with Fox News host Tucker Carlson, Musk states his shock at finding out about the government’s ability to read users’ direct messages on his platform.
The billionaire tycoon told Carlson how he was unaware of the fact until he joined the company and expressed surprise at how government agencies could monitor social media.
In a sit-down interview with Fox News host Tucker Carlson, Musk states, ‘The degree to which various government agencies effectively had full access to everything that was going on Twitter blew my mind, I was not aware of that.’
Carlson asks, “Would that include people’s DM’s?” Musk replies, “Uh, yes.”
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Elon confirms to Tucker govt officials had access to all of Twitter including Twitter DMs. How many suspensions from DM activity? pic.twitter.com/A1Ch4k1SU7
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Musk also shared concerns around artificial intelligence, saying the technology has the potential to destroy human civilization.
“AI is more dangerous than, say, mismanaged aircraft design or production maintenance, or bad car production in the sense that it has the potential – however small one may regard that probability, but it is non-trivial – it has the potential for civilizational destruction,” he said.
Things can’t seem more aligned with AI dystopian movies like The Matrix and I, Robot then where we are, today.
Although it is unclear how long the government had such access, Musk’s comments suggest the situation is far more widespread than many may have considered.
The interview is set to air tonight on Tucker Carlson 8 p.m. EST.
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