Elon Musk: 'Chances are we're all living in a simulation'

Elon Musk wears many hats. So it's no surprise that over the course of an interview at California's Code conference, Musk revealed a number of things we didn't know before. Musk is no stranger to the work of philosopher Nick Bostrom, who has warned before that superintelligent AI might wipe out humanity. Musk cited that fear as a reason for investing in AI company DeepMind, before it was bought by Google. But now he's introduced the world to another concept popularised by Bostrum: the simulation problem. The problem is that if realistic simulations of the universe are possible, then there would very quickly be far more simulations of reality than actual reality.