Bannon har en ideologisk konflikt med Musk i synen på den mänskliga rasen. Ska homo sapiens bevaras eller ska techbolagen tvinga fram en ”utveckling” av människan i transhumanistisk riktning. Den här intervjun rekommenderas: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/opinion/ross-douthat-steve-bannon.html
Bannon: ”I think Neuralink is one of the most aggressive about Homo sapien 1.0 or Homo sapien 2.0. Elon is at the tip of this, and Elon is actually on an applied engineering basis, not [expletive] talk, he is probably the farthest advanced for transhumanism.
People have to understand in the life, and when I say ’life’ I mean the next 10 years, of your audience, we’re going to be facing a dilemma for yourself and your kids: Do you enhance yourself? Do you enhance yourself either by genetic engineering? Do you enhance yourself by advanced chip design plugged into you? Do you advance yourself by artificial intelligence?”
