Elon Musk warns AI could outpace human intelligence by next year

Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk announced on X that artificial intelligence is likely to exceed the intelligence of an individual human by the coming year, echoing a broader debate sparked by futurist Ray Kurzweil and podcaster Joe Rogan about reaching human‑level AI by 2029.

Musk’s warning joins other high‑profile concerns about AI risks. In a separate commentary, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders questioned Anthropic’s chatbot Claude, after which Claude admitted that a moratorium on new AI data centres might be a pragmatic response to industry resistance against regulation. The discussion highlighted the massive scale of AI investment—estimated at over $2.5 trillion this year—and the potential for widespread economic and societal disruption.

Tech leaders such as Meta’s Yann LeCun, Google’s Sundar Pichai and OpenAI’s Sam Altman offered differing views on the timeline and impact of artificial general intelligence, underscoring the ongoing uncertainty surrounding AI’s trajectory.