According to Sky News, Elon Musk said that artificial intelligence is a double-edged sword and that it is important to have an arbiter in the appeal to US senators.

Speaking to senators on Capitol Hill, the Tesla boss said every senator present at the meeting raised their hand in favor of regulating artificial intelligence and that the creation of a regulatory body is likely.

Musk was joined by Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta Platforms, and Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet, in a closed-door forum on how Congress should set AI safeguards.

Lawmakers are grappling with how to mitigate the dangers of this new technology, which has sparked an explosion of investment and consumer popularity since the launch of the OpenAI chatbot ChatGPT.

Musk prevented the Ukrainian attack on Sevastopol

The meeting came after it emerged that last year Musk rejected Ukraine’s request to activate its Starlink satellite network in the Crimean port city of Sevastopol to help attack the Russian fleet there, saying he feared complicity in a “major” act of war.

The billionaire businessman made the comments on his social media platform X after CNN quoted an excerpt from a new biography of Musk saying he ordered the Starlink network off the coast of Crimea last year to abort a surprise attack from Ukraine.

In a post on X – formerly Twitter – the billionaire said he had no choice but to reject an emergency request from Ukraine to “activate Starlink to Sevastopol”.

He did not specify the date of the request, and it was not specified in the application.

“The apparent intent was to sink most of the Russian fleet at anchor,” Musk wrote.

“If I were to agree to their request, then SpaceX would be clearly complicit in a major war and escalation of the conflict,” he said.

By the way, in February of this year, SpaceX, Musk’s aerospace company, announced that it had banned Kyiv from using the Starlink system for military operations, a move strongly criticized by Ukraine, as the satellite internet system was vital to the military, especially in the early months of the war.

But SpaceX dropped its objections a few months after the Pentagon agreed to pay for Ukraine to use the service, as Musk requested back in October 2022.