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The rise of social media platforms has aided in the revolutionization of the whole world, where innovation has eroded borders, added color to people's lives, and created new realities. Online platforms, like the pandemic, have influenced practically everyone who uses the internet is on social media. Initially, this worldwide phenomenon started by granting users freedom of expression, assisting them in becoming content producers and architects, improving their visibility and exposure on a colossal scale. Everyone is linked through the virtual world. Thus, social networks have evolved into a luxury, not only for CEOs, who may use them to make announcements about their firms and current events and promote CSR and solidarity initiatives. Nonetheless, it provided firms with the chance to be more accessible to their consumers and solicit their input more promptly and more effectively publicize their product and service offerings. Elon Musk's tweets significantly affect social media and its followers. His tweets even cause the financial market to move. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Elon Musk famously said we are "summoning the demon" by developing AI but the rest of us do not agree what the demon is. It might be the threat of a malevolent superintelligence or the immoral enslaving of artificially intelligent agents. Against AI, the Machiavellian Intelligence Hypothesis argues it is social competition that has driven primate intelligence so that ethics originates in the advantages offered by lying better than other liars. We should not be surprised, as a result, by the "replicability crisis" in science, stemming partly from methodological difficulty but often from fraud. The "new moral science" attempts to build an ethics freed from conflicting human intuitions and buttressed by the reliability of a science now undermined by this crisis. Compounding the problem, complex adaptive systems cannot be captured by theories or algorithms simpler than the systems, with the result that both understanding and predictability suffer. Coarse-grained simulations of such systems restore some predictability but at the price of inviting misunderstanding and fraud. Just as conventional ethics arose in deceptive behavior such as lying, so AI ethics originates in the treacherous relationship between close and coarse graining in simulation so widely used in artificial intelligence. Musk's demon is closer at hand than a destructive superintelligence or smart robots we unwittingly enslave. Instead it lie currently train people in technologies such as artificial intelligence. It is therefore much more urgent. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Elon Musk and SpaceX are central to the profound change underway in the space industry, opening up the sector to entrepreneurship and innovation by non-traditional new entrants. We employ the emancipation perspective on entrepreneuring as a theoretical lens to describe, explain, and interpret the entrepreneuring activities of Musk to launch and grow SpaceX. Applying an event study approach combining case methods and process theory methods on publicly-available sources, we develop six examples of seeking autonomy, seven examples of authoring, and four examples of making declarations—the three core elements of the emancipation perspective. Our work contributes to the theory and practice of innovation by adding to the corpus of descriptive case studies that examine entrepreneuring as an emancipatory process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

SpaceX founder and chief executive Elon Musk announced on February 27, 2017 plans to launch two paying "private individuals" on a touristic space orbital journey around the moon and back to earth by the end of 2018. While several companies are applying for governmental licenses to launch "space tourists" into sub-orbital trajectories, SpaceX's proposal is among the first initiatives to expand commercial space tourism beyond the earth orbital region. This paper examines whether states, already conducting governmental space missions outside earth's orbital region, will perceive a legal or policy obligation to regulate commercial space tourism in the lunar region as a new category of space activity within the context of the Outer Space Treaty's Article VI stipulation for "continuing supervision" of space activities and the Moon Agreement's provisions regarding exploitation of the moon and other celestial bodies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]