Tesla CEO and Twitter owner Elon Musk hosted a conversation with presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr on Monday. And while it lasted for more than two hours, Bitcoin and the digital assets industry never came up.
The chit-chat between the two, moderated by entrepreneur David Sacks, didn’t begin until 15 minutes after its scheduled start. The talk was not, however, overshadowed by technical issues that plagued Musk’s heart-to-heart with Ron DeSantis weeks ago.
Kennedy, the nephew of former president John F. Kennedy, announced his 2024 presidential bid as a Democrat last month. And he has presented himself to potential voters as an outspoken advocate of Bitcoin.
But Musk and Kennedy’s conversation focused on other tech topics, like artificial intelligence and social media censorship. They discussed calls for AI regulations, Musk’s Neuralink, and how COVID misinformation was handled on social media.
On AI, Kennedy said, “If I do get in the White House, I think that’s one of the things that I need to pay a lot of attention to,” adding it would need to be regulated in a way so that the tech “doesn’t end up killing us all or enslaving us.”
The conversation’s lack of chatter on digital assets follows Kennedy’s keynote address at Bitcoin 2023 in Miami, Florida, where he championed Bitcoin as an
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