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Elon Musk: Artificial intelligence will continue to scale until we've harnessed all the energy of our galaxy. “I think we'll see intelligence continue to scale all the way up to where most of the power of the sun is harnessed for compute, and then ultimately most of the power... of the galaxy, sort of Kardashev 2, Kardashev 3 scale compute. One should think about artificial intelligence, not as a destination that you reach, but really as part of the overall escalation of intelligence that we are aware of. Human intelligence has also scaled as the population has increased and we've been able to store more and more information.” Interview at the All-In Summit, September 10, 2025show more

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“One of the ways you can think about the progress of a civilization is the Kardashev scale. When you think in terms of the Kardashev scale, it becomes obvious that the Sun is the most overwhelming source of energy.” — Elon Musk

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Elon Musk: Everything is solar power. The rest is noise. “The sun is about 99.8% of the mass of the solar system. Jupiter's about 0.1% and everything else is in the remaining 0.1%, and we are much less than 0.1%. So, if you burnt all of the mass of the solar system, then the total energy produced by the sun would still round up to 100%. If you just burnt Earth, the whole planet, and burnt Jupiter, which is very big and quite challenging to burn, turn Jupiter into a thermonuclear reactor, the sun is 99.8% of the mass of the solar system and everything else is in the miscellaneous category. Basically, no matter what you do, total energy produced in our solar system rounds up to 100% from the sun. You could even throw another Jupiter in, so we're going to snag a Jupiter from somewhere else, you could teleport two more Jupiters into our solar system, burn them, and the sun would still round up to 100%. As long as you're at 99.6%, you're still rounding up to 100%. Maybe that gives some perspective of why solar is really the thing that matters. And, as soon as you start thinking about things at a grander scale, like Kardashev Scale 2 civilizations, it becomes very, very obvious. I'm not saying anything that's new, by the way. Anyone who studies physics has known this for a very long time. In fact, Kardashev, a Russian physicist who came up with this idea, I think, in the 1960s, just as a way to classify civilizations, where Kardashev Scale 1 would be, you've harnessed most of the energy of the planet, Kardashev Scale 2, you've harnessed most of the energy of your sun, Kardashev 3, you've harnessed most of the energy of a galaxy. Now we're only about 1% or a few percent of Kardashev Scale 1 right now, optimistically. But as soon as you go to Kardashev Scale 2, where you're talking about the power of the sun, then you're really just saying everything is solar power and the rest is in the noise. Like, the sun produces about a billion times, or call it well over a billion times more energy than everything on Earth combined.” All-In Podcast, October 31, 2025

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“ As we progress along the Kardashev Scale, energy harnessed on Earth will increase a hundredfold and will mostly be solar aka fusion aka starlight. Then energy harnessed will increase perhaps a billionfold if we make it to Kardashev II, with space solar power, and another billionfold if we harness the energy of our galaxy 🌌 .” — Elon Musk

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Elon Musk :The biggest source of energy by far is the sun. So nothing even comes close to the sun in terms of energy output The sun converts over 4 million tons of mass to energy per second. And it’s been doing that for a very long time, and will do that for many billions of years to come So, one of the ways you can think of the progress of any given civilization is on the Kardashev scale. And so, just a simple way of thinking about it is: ➝ You’re a Kardashev Level One if you’ve harnessed all the power of a planet ➝ You’re Two if you’ve harnessed all the power of a solar system ➝ And you’re Three if you’ve harnessed the power of a galaxy. We’re very far from Three, it’s safe to say. But even from One So when you think in Kardashev terms, it becomes very obvious that the sun is overwhelmingly the source of energy and everything else is tiny potatoes. Tiny potatoes are fine for now, but the sun is overwhelmingly the big potato. The humongous potato So it’s really harnessing the power of the sun that will lead us to the stars

Elon Musk :The biggest source of energy by far is the sun. So nothing even comes close to the sun in terms of energy output The sun converts over 4 million tons of mass to energy per second. And it’s been doing that for a very long time, and will do that for many billions of years to come So, one of the ways you can think of the progress of any given civilization is on the Kardashev scale. And so, just a simple way of thinking about it is: ➝ You’re a Kardashev Level One if you’ve harnessed all the power of a planet ➝ You’re Two if you’ve harnessed all the power of a solar system ➝ And you’re Three if you’ve harnessed the power of a galaxy. We’re very far from Three, it’s safe to say. But even from One So when you think in Kardashev terms, it becomes very obvious that the sun is overwhelmingly the source of energy and everything else is tiny potatoes. Tiny potatoes are fine for now, but the sun is overwhelmingly the big potato. The humongous potato So it’s really harnessing the power of the sun that will lead us to the stars

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Elon Musk: We might just be the biological bootloader for digital superintelligence. “They call it the singularity for a reason, because we don't know what's going to happen. In the not-too-distant future, the percentage of intelligence that is human will be quite small. At some point, the collective sum of human intelligence will be less than 1% of all intelligence. If things get to A Kardashev Level 2, we're talking about human intelligence. Even assuming a significant increase in human population and intelligence augmentation, like massive intelligence augmentation, where, like, everyone has an IQ of a thousand, even in that circumstance, collective human intelligence will probably be 1 billionth that of digital intelligence. We're the biological bootloader for digital superintelligence.” Interview at Y Combinator, June 16, 2025

Elon Musk: We might just be the biological bootloader for digital superintelligence. “They call it the singularity for a reason, because we don't know what's going to happen. In the not-too-distant future, the percentage of intelligence that is human will be quite small. At some point, the collective sum of human intelligence will be less than 1% of all intelligence. If things get to A Kardashev Level 2, we're talking about human intelligence. Even assuming a significant increase in human population and intelligence augmentation, like massive intelligence augmentation, where, like, everyone has an IQ of a thousand, even in that circumstance, collective human intelligence will probably be 1 billionth that of digital intelligence. We're the biological bootloader for digital superintelligence.” Interview at Y Combinator, June 16, 2025

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