Throughout history a lot of highly educated people feared the worst and argued why it might happen. It's not like they are prophets of doom, they don't assure p

Throughout history a lot of highly educated people feared the worst and argued why it might happen. It's not like they are prophets of doom, they don't assure people it will happen, they just express fears that it might happen, usually with reasons to back it up - and that's OK, people tend to not think about problems proactively. If society is introduced to a new problem it's usually a good thing. In his case in particular, I feel there's a big disconnect between what he's saying and what the titles end up being. For example, he says there's a possibility we could live in a simulation and explains why, only to end up with a title like "Elon Musk thinks we live in the Matrix". You could always say he knows more then most of us (classified research, etc.), but I think he's just talking about things that he fears _could_ happen and the media, and society, instead of engaging in some discussion about this, just treats it as tabloid - "look what Musk says, shock!".