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Billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk has once again blurred the line between visionary and provocateur, 'confessing' at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos that 'he is an alien'.

The Tesla and SpaceX CEO left an audience of global leaders, including BlackRock chief Larry Fink, in a state of bewildered amusement after doubling down on his long-running claim that he is not from this planet.

During a discussion on artificial intelligence, tariffs and automation, Musk told a live audience that he was, in his own words, 'one of them', before expressing mock frustration that no one takes him seriously.

'I'm often asked, are there aliens among us? And I'll say that I am one,' Musk told the crowd, before lamenting that 'nobody believes me.' When Fink responded with a somewhat befuddled query—'You're from the future?'—Musk doubled down, lamenting a recurring frustration: 'They don't believe me.'

The surreal moment follows years of cryptic social media posts where Musk has previously identified as a '3,000-year-old vampire' and a 'time-traveller' from the future.

The billionaire then suggested that if anyone had the knowledge to identify extraterrestrials living among humanity, it would surely be himself.

The comments, delivered with Musk's familiar deadpan tone, were not new but reignited debate over whether his increasingly theatrical public persona is calculated humour, deliberate myth-making, or a distraction from more serious warnings he routinely issues about technology and civilisation.

As clips circulated online, critics and supporters alike debated where irony ends and intent begins.

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This is, remarkably, not the first time the world's richest man has made such claims. The SpaceX founder has cultivated an increasingly elaborate mythology around his supposed extraterrestrial origins, each iteration somehow more bewildering than the last. Speaking at VivaTech, a prominent technology summit in Paris in May 2024, Musk laughed when asked whether people believe he is an alien. 'I am an alien—yes, I keep telling people I'm an alien,' he replied with what appeared to be genuine exasperation. 'But nobody believes me.'

At that same conference, Musk shifted the conversation to more pressing existential threats, warning that artificial intelligence posed a far greater danger than extraterrestrial visitors. 'Probably none of us will have a job,' he stated flatly, predicting that advanced AI and robotics would render traditional employment obsolete. He painted a utopian vision in which future work would become entirely optional, transformed into hobbies as machines handle the production of all essential goods and services.

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By November of that same year, Musk's celestial narrative had taken a decidedly darker turn. In a post on X (the platform formerly known as Twitter), he revealed himself to be something altogether more complicated: a time-travelling vampire who had grown weary of reinventing his identity across centuries. 'Full disclosure, I'm actually a 3000-year-old vampire,' he wrote with the kind of arch humour that defines his social media presence. 'It's such a trial assuming these false identities over the centuries!'

As evidence of his supposedly supernatural surveillance capabilities, Musk pointed to his sprawling constellation of 9,000 Starlink satellites orbiting Earth. 'We have 9,000 satellites up there,' he declared, 'and not once have we had to manoeuvre around an alien spaceship.' The logic, whilst utterly absurd, contained a peculiar internal consistency—if he truly monitored every inch of near-Earth space, surely he would have encountered evidence of intergalactic visitors by now.

Yet beneath the theatrical absurdity, Musk offered a sobering warning. He urged humanity to recognise that consciousness and intelligent life might be extraordinarily rare phenomena in the universe. 'Bottom line is we need to assume that life and consciousness are extremely rare, and it might only be us,' he said, his tone shifting to something approaching genuine philosophical concern. 'If that's the case, we need to do everything possible to ensure that the light of consciousness is not extinguished.'

The comments reveal a peculiar duality in Musk's public persona. Whether performing comedic revelations about his supposed alien heritage or issuing warnings about existential risks, his statements blur the line between showmanship and sincere conviction, leaving observers perpetually uncertain whether they are witnessing a brilliant provocateur or simply a billionaire who has entirely lost the plot.

Whether Musk is truly a 'vampire' or simply a master of the news cycle, his ability to pivot from intergalactic jokes to existential warnings ensures that even in Davos, the 'Alien' remains the centre of gravity.