As of early 2026, Elon Musk’s public stance has actually leaned into "bootloader" theory. He has famously suggested that humanity might simply be the **"biological bootloader"** for a digital superintelligence—the initial code required to start a much more complex system that eventually no longer needs the starter. He is racing to build the very thing he warns could be our "final invention." Evolution requires three elements: heredity, variation, and selection. If succeeds by year-end, we may have worked ourself—and the rest of us—out of a job as the primary drivers of Earth's evolution. [The Race for AGI Poses New Risks to an Unstable World](https://time.com/7312305/agi-race-us-china-trump/)