Ruth Ben-Ghiat
As I wrote on February 2, 2025, it was a new kind of coup: https://lucid.substack.com/p/a-new-kind-of-coup-trump-and-musk?r=4urvg&utm_medium=ios
The Hollywood Reporter
Elon Musk documentary, ‘Musk,’ contends that his four-month stint in Washington last year did more than gleefully ax 270,000 federal employees and untold billions in life-saving aid. Director Alex Gibney suggests that Musk also had access to and potentially collected intimate data on tens of millions of Americans possibly even for later political use. Geoffrey Hinton, the Nobel-prize-winning godfather of AI, offers a specific use case: leveraging the data into an unfair campaign advantage. “It’s fairly clear to me that Trump is hell-bent on corrupting the midterm elections,” he says onscreen. “If you wanted to corrupt those midterm elections and you wanted to use AI, all you needed to do was get detailed information on U.S. citizens. And what DOGE did looked like just what you would do.” Read the exclusive THR cover story on ‘Musk’: http://bit.ly/4qSLyuX
