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Musk Mocks Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ at Davos as He Touts Rapid AI and Robot Timelines

His Davos turn coincided with fresh probes and bans on xAI’s Grok over explicit content in Europe and Asia.

Overview

  • Elon Musk’s “peace or piece” quip about taking “a little piece of Greenland, a little piece of Venezuela” drew laughs and became one of Davos’s most discussed moments.
  • The Board of Peace, chaired by President Trump, was presented for Gaza reconstruction but its charter describes a broader international mandate, according to language circulated to invited countries.
  • Regulators across Europe and Asia have opened investigations, imposed restrictions and demanded safeguards targeting sexually explicit outputs from xAI’s Grok chatbot.
  • Musk said Tesla could begin selling humanoid robots as early as next year and predicted AI systems could surpass any human’s intelligence by the end of this year or next.
  • The appearance marked Musk’s first time on the World Economic Forum stage after years of criticizing the gathering as elitist.