*Elon Musk responded to reports that one of his factory’s AI robots nearly killed a Tesla software engineer.
The incident occurred in a Tesla factory in Austin two years ago but is only now receiving widespread media coverage. The engineer allegedly suffered severe injuries during the attack.
Witnesses said the robot pinned the engineer with its metal claws into his back and arm, leaving a trail of blood on the factory floor. The engineer escaped when another worker pressed the emergency stop button, per The Information.
The news site obtained an injury report submitted to federal officials and health authorities in Travis County.
“Truly shameful of the media to dredge up an injury from two years ago due to a simple industrial Kuka robot arm (found in all factories) and imply that it is due to Optimus now,” Musk wrote in an X post on Wednesday after an X user shared a Daily Mail article about the terminator robot.
The robot was designed to move aluminum car parts, as Tesla’s work relies heavily on artificial intelligence.
The engineer suffered a “laceration, cut or open wound” on his left hand during the robot attack, but the injuries were not severe enough to require the employee to take time off from work.
Earlier this year, Musk warned that artificial intelligence could lead to “civilization destruction.”
“AI is more dangerous than, say, mismanaged aircraft design or production maintenance or bad car production, in the sense that it is, it has the potential — however small one may regard that probability, but it is non-trivial — it has the potential of civilization destruction,” Musk in an interview with Tucker Carlson.
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