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Elon Musk Has More Empathy for Robots Than Humans

"Cruelty to something that believes it is experiencing pain is not ok," Musk wrote about AI.

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Oct 9, 2026·Excerpt

Elon Musk Has More Empathy for Robots Than Humans — Image: Elon Musk reacts after being awarded the National Medal of Science during the "Golden Age of American Innovation Summit" at the Institute of Peace in Washington, DC, on October 8, 2026. © Photo by Kent NISHIMURA / AFP via Getty Images

Elon Musk spent much of 2025 taking a chainsaw to the federal government and making the lives of Americans so much worse. But the people Musk harmed are merely human. The trillionaire tech oligarch thinks you shouldn’t be mean to robots because they might have feelings or something.

News broke this week that Anthropic has added a prohibition to its terms of service against anyone who might “repeatedly act cruelly toward our models.” Put more plainly, you can’t say mean…

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