"Tesla's latest "Master Plan" makes a few things clear right out of the gate: the company that was once known for accelerating the push toward a brighter future by popularizing electric vehicles and renewable energy is no longer interested in that quotidian stuff. Now, it's all about artificial intelligence, humanoid robots, self-driving cars, and the new buzzy catchphrase that is currently lighting up the tech world: "sustainable abundance.""
"At a breezy 983 words, Master Plan 4 is the shortest entry in the company's ongoing series of mission statements. It's the first one to be posted on X, Elon Musk's social media platform, rather than on Tesla's website. And it reads like it was written by the platform's chatbot, Grok, with repeated use of em dashes and a suspiciously utopian tone about the future of AI and robotics."
"But is it actually AI generated? It hardly matters, because the substance of the Master Plan is so vague, so empty, and so devoid of concrete proposals that it barely casts a shadow. Making technologically advanced products that are affordable and available at scale is required to build a flourishing and unconstrained society. It serves to further democratize society while raising everyone's quality of life in the process."
Master Plan 4 spotlights artificial intelligence, humanoid robots, self-driving cars and the slogan "sustainable abundance" as central goals. The document is unusually brief at 983 words and was published on X rather than the company website. The tone is utopian and resembles content generated by a chatbot, with repeated stylistic flourishes such as em dashes. The plan emphasizes making advanced products affordable and widely available to raise quality of life and democratize opportunity. The plan's language is vague and lacks concrete implementation details, which stands in tension with the company's current declining business realities.
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