# Should you be afraid of Elon Musk? > Source: > Published: 2026-07-26 04:00:43+00:00 # Should you be afraid of Elon Musk? The race to create the most advanced AI is on, but the thinking about how to prepare society is left behind ARTIFICIAL intelligence poses a double challenge to the human mind. Not only will the most advanced models soon be able to think better than people, but AI has consequences for humanity which are so uncertain, so potentially vast and are approaching at such a rapid pace that even the best brains flinch. An example is Elon Musk. In our long interview with him this week, featured in The Insider and our Business section, the engineer and entrepreneur sets out two paradoxes and one contradiction. The first paradox is that one of the world’s most power-hungry tycoons is enthusiastically helping create a technology that he says will render him – and all other human beings – powerless after as little as five years. [TRENDING NOW](/pulse?ref=trending-now) UOB CEO’s youngest child Grant Wee turns burnout into a wellness business Trump holds off on major escalation against Iran amid fears over dwindling US missile interceptor stockpiles SK Hynix tycoon ordered to pay US$643 million divorce settlement Singapore banks’ battle for wealth talent goes beyond private bankers