Vitalik vs. Elon: The AI Showdown You Never Knew You Needed! 😂🤖

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So, grab your popcorn and prepare for the ultimate showdown: Ethereum co-founder and expert meme creator, Vitalik Buterin, just dropped some seriously spooky predictions about our AI overlords on the X platform. 🍿👀 Let’s just say, it’s a real horror show, folks!

Meanwhile, over in the glittery land of Elon Musk, he’s busy painting a picture of a future where we’re all lounging around at the beach while robots bake us soy lattes and ensure our ‘universal high income’-because if anyone can guarantee that all of us will be sipping drinks with tiny umbrellas while robots do the heavy lifting, it’s definitely Elon. 🍹🤷‍♀️

Vitalik Buterin expresses concerns about AI

It all kicked off with a post from a user named “Utah teapot” (clearly, their parents had a real knack for naming) who was like, “Hey, what if we trained AI to actually give a hoot about human values?” I mean, who even needs respect for humanity, right? 😬🙄

This user was all fired up, claiming that coherent human values are about as real as Bigfoot. They threw out some heavyweight concerns about AI’s alignment issues, which is basically fancy talk for AI being less trustworthy than your average cat. 🐱✨

we know lots of things that are clearly very against human values (eg. killing or imprisoning innocent people)

and the argument is that we’re not good enough at alignment to ensure that a singleton superintelligent AI will avoid _even that_

– vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) August 25, 2025

Vitalik jumped on board, agreeing that letting AI loose with no moral compass is like giving a toddler a paintbrush and a wall: not going to end well. He warned that humans aren’t exactly nailing the “alignment” part-so we might want to rethink our plans to hand over the keys to a superintelligent AI before it decides that taking out the trash involves humanity. 🤦‍♀️

Elon Musk’s promise of universal welfare through AI

Now, when it comes to the future job market, our favorite tech wizard, Elon Musk, promised that AI will not only take our jobs but will do it while ensuring *everyone* has a universal high income. Because if AI is going to put us all out of work, it might as well make sure we have a solid biscuit supply and a personal butler robot named Jeeves. 🍪🤖

There will be universal high income (not merely basic income).

Everyone will have the best medical care, food, home, transport and everything else.

Sustainable abundance.

– Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 24, 2025

According to Elon, we’ll all be filthy rich, living in robotic utopia complete with the best medical care and all the guacamole we could ever want. Plus, there’s going to be more robots than humans-so, prepare yourself to either throw a party or feel woefully outnumbered. They might even come with their own C3PO and R2D2 sidekicks! 🥳🤖

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2025-08-25 16:56