"Money won’t matter in 2036," Musk told The Economist editor-in-chief, Zanny Minton Beddoes, in a wide-ranging interview, predicting that within ten years the world will transition to having “incredible abundance.”

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk pushed back after The Economist’s Zanny Minton Beddoes said some people “loathe” him, saying he doesn’t care and arguing more people distrust the media than him.

Elon Musk told The Economist editor Zanny Minton Beddoes that journalists are more despised than him after she said people loathe the trillionaire's influence.

Tech trillionaire Elon Musk admitted that he got “too involved” with U.S. politics in a new interview with The Economist.

Musk said that the AI race accelerated after Anthropic spun out of OpenAI, which was not his intention when he helped create the company.

It is unclear how his dark vision of the future outside America fits with his AI utopianism. But even Mr Musk wonders if it all makes sense. At times, he says, he believes in a theory in which the universe is a computer simulation created by aliens. “The things I’m doing are so preposterous that it’s hard to believe they’re real.” ■

In a heated Economist interview, Elon Musk tells editor Zanny Minton Beddoes that journalists are 'hated far more' than he is, as polling and his controversial record paint a more tangled picture.

Elon Musk is facing fresh mockery after attacking Economist editor-in-chief Zanny Minton Beddoes days after she pressed him on a series of contradictions during a combative interview.Musk sat down with Beddoes for an interview published Thursday that quickly turned tense.