Elon Musk: It would be ‘cruel’ to put high-level AI into a toaster

Elon Musk
In a recent post on X, Elon Musk wrote, “Once you far exceed the caliber of intelligence needed for a class of tasks, additional intelligence is pointless – even “cruel.” You don’t need (and it would be cruel to put) Newton-level intelligence in your toaster!”
“Newton-level intelligence” means the kind of mind Isaac Newton had: rare, generative, and capable of discovering or inventing fundamental new frameworks — calculus, the laws