Elon Reeve Musk, FRS (Pretoria, June 28, 1971) is a South African-Canadian-American entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is the founder, CEO and CTO of SpaceX; Tesla Motors CEO; vice president of OpenAI; founder and CEO of Neuralink; and co-founder and president of SolarCity. On January 7, 2021, with an estimated net worth of $ 188.5 billion, he became the richest man in the world according to Bloomberg, overtaking Jeff Bezos. In the Forbes ranking, Elon Musk ranks second.
Elon Musk has publicly expressed concerns about the extinction of humanity, and has also proposed solutions, some of which are the main objective of his companies and are already being done in practice. Among them, the reduction of global warming, through the use of renewable energies, a multiplanetary project, more specifically the colonization of Mars and the safe development of artificial intelligence.