Elon Musk has taken over my world, and I don’t like it

The Twitter/X CEO has access to the world’s leaders, and the power to influence wars, the future of AI, and the tech that dominates our lives, writes Sean O’Grady. Where should we draw the line?

Do we want Elon Musk, and maybe a few others, to tell us how to think? (AFP via Getty)

How am I in this war?” It’s a question we’d all like some sort of answer to.

The question was posed by Elon Musk to Walter Isaacson, whose biography of Musk is due to be published next week. It refers to Ukraine, and the questions about whether Musk ordered his Starlink internet system to be shut down to prevent it from being used in a potentially humiliating attack on the Russian Black Sea fleet by Ukrainian forces. Musk denies doing so.

In any event, understandably Musk doesn’t want to play a role in provoking World War III – even his ego isn’t that big – but the episode shows the incredible power and reach the tech billionaire now has.