Elon Musk isn’t exactly known for his quick wit, and a recent incident on X-formerly-Twitter shows exactly why that is.
In a throwaway post about the dodgy WiFi offerings on Delta Airlines flights, machine learning engineer and co-founder of the firm Proof of Human Matt Hardy quipped a few days back that “we should just sandbox the [AI] agents by giving them Delta Wifi.”
Coming on the back of tech-industry buzz about AI agents busting out of closed-off research environments, the timely joke attracted a respectable 11,000 likes: not bad for a tweet probably born out of Hardy’s own frustrations on a Delta flight. There were even a couple hundred comments, including a simple laughing emoji from Elon Musk.
The line evidently made an impression in the mind of the arch-billionaire. A day later, Musk posted his own light rewording of the joke, complete with a drawn-on explanation: “best way to sandbox an AI is to put it on a Delta flight — it will have no chance of accessing the internet!” he enthused.
