Elon Musk has shared the genre of podcasts he listens to as he’s falling asleep, despite their content being some of his biggest worries.
The Tesla founder shared earlier this week: “I listen to podcasts about the fall of civilisations to fall asleep”.
However, when asked at the Milken Global Conference in Los Angeles what keeps him up at night, Musk responded: “Anything that’s a civilizational risk.”
He elaborated: “Anything that undermines the foundations of democracy in America or elsewhere” as well as “anything that’s leading us away from a merit-based system.”
According to The Independent, Musk has theorised that the collapse of civilisation could eventually come down to declining birth rates, artificial intelligence of a “single world government”.
It’s not the first time Musk has shared that he engages with this genre of podcast.
Hi Elon, at present the platform is too compromised for me to consider it. It's become a safe haven for hate speech, and meanwhile crypto scammers and bots are paying to be boosted to the top of replies. Everything that once made Twitter special seems to be leaching away.
— Fall of Civilizations Podcast (@Fall_of_Civ_Pod) June 11, 2023
In June last year, after he bought Twitter (now X), he was rejected by the makers of the Fall Of Civilizations podcast, after asking them to upload their episodes directly to the site: “Please upload your podcasts to this platform too”.
The show’s official account responded to Musk’s plea: “Hi Elon, at present the platform is too compromised for me to consider it.”
They continued: “It’s become a safe haven for hate speech, and meanwhile crypto scammers and bots are paying to be boosted to the top of replies. Everything that once made Twitter special seems to be leaching away.”
Elsewhere, Musk has recently suggested that X will charge users a “small fee” to post on the platform, in an attempt to deter bots.