Elon Musk: World Economic Forum, Jan 23, 2026

At the keynote on Jan 23, 2026, Elon Musk said 5 of the 12 words Kalshi listed; Parrot’s count agreed with 11 of 12 settlements. Quotes below are at most 25 words each.

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12 words · 5 settled yes · our count agreed on 11 of 12

backtest The probabilities on settled rows are a walk-forward backtest: the model as of before each event, computed after Parrot went live; they were not published at the time.

Listed words: result, our count under the market rule, the count over every speaker, whether they agree, and the probability (a walk-forward backtest on settled rows)
WordResultOur countAll speakersAgreesProbabilityMarket
China Yes1112✓–n=1 too little history for a probability–
FSD / Full Self Driving Yes34✓–new new word, no probability yet–
Tariff Yes22✓–new new word, no probability yet–
Optimus Yes11✓–new new word, no probability yet–
Robotaxi Yes00✗–new new word, no probability yet–
Starlink No00✓36%n=2 from settlement history–
Grok / xAI No00✓34%n=2 from settlement history–
Democrat No00✓–new new word, no probability yet–
Gigafactory No00✓–new new word, no probability yet–
Iran No00✓–new new word, no probability yet–
Trump No00✓–n=1 too little history for a probability–
DOGE / Department of Government Efficiency No00✓22%n=2 from settlement history–

Market prices are mid quotes from Kalshi and Polymarket, shown for context, may be delayed by several minutes and are not a signal. Quotes as of Oct 20, 2026 23:45 UTC.

Transcript

quotes of at most 25 words

Captions · machine-attributed · World Economic Forum (YouTube) · Source · Quotes of at most 25 words; the full recording is on the publisher's official channel.

Machine-attributed. Speaker turns are labelled by a model, not the publisher.

7 matches for “Consciousness”; 5 quoted, at least 25 words apart.

Elon Muskspeaker7:32

…civilization has a great future. Um and uh to [clears throat] expand consciousness beyond Earth. So, if you take SpaceX, for example, that's SpaceX is…

Elon Muskspeaker7:54

…star systems. And uh I know I think we should always view consciousness uh life as we know it as as precarious and delicate. Um…

Elon Muskspeaker8:38

…So, I'm like, I don't know. It's Bottom line is I think we need to assume that life and consciousness is extremely rare, and it

Elon Muskspeaker8:52

the light the light of consciousness is not extinguished, because we're effectively we're we're we're The way I view it is the image in my…

Elon Muskspeaker9:20

…there is a natural disaster or a man-made disaster on Earth, that consciousness continues. That's the purpose of SpaceX. Um Uh Te- Tesla is obviously…

Where the listed words were said

Elon Muskspeaker“China” · 17:25

…be producing more chips than we can turn on. Ex- except for China. China China's China's growth in electricity is is tremendous. They're building 100…

Elon Muskspeaker“FSD / Full Self Driving” · 24:35

Uh yes, the Tesla full self-driving software we we update it sometimes once a week. Um and um recently [clears throat] some of the insurance…

Elon Muskspeaker“Tariff” · 21:30

…is As it is in China. Well, unfortunately in in the US the the the tariff barriers for solar are are extremely high [clears throat]

Elon Muskspeaker“Optimus” · 23:37

…quickly. I think uh we we we do have some the Tesla Optimus robots doing simple tasks in the factory. Um we expect it it…

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