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Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele visited Tesla headquarters to meet Elon Musk and discuss, among other topics, the role of next-generation technologies, such as artificial intelligence, in shaping humanity’s future.
On Sept. 21, Bukele posted a video on X showcasing his visit to Tesla’s gigafactory in Austin, Texas, where he met with Musk. In the brief clip, Musk welcomes the president and gives him a tour of the facility.
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Musk followed up by praising Bukele as “an amazing leader.” He said:
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 “Just had an excellent conversation with President Nayib Bukele. We talked a lot about the nature of reality, future of humanity and how technology like AI and robotics will affect the world.”
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Bukele is in the US to attend the 79th United Nations General Assembly in New York during the last week of September.
Musk received home-grown coffee from Bukele as a gift and offered a can of Coca-Cola in return.
Related: <a data-ct-non-breakable="null" href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/how-bhutan-quietly-acquired-twice-bitcoin-than-el-salvador" rel="null" target="null" text="null" title="null">Bhutan has twice as much Bitcoin as El Salvador, says Arkham</a>
<h2 id="el-salvador-keen-on-ai-adoption">El Salvador keen on AI adoption&nbsp;</h2>
Following the mainstream adoption of Bitcoin (<a data-ct-non-breakable="null" href="https://cointelegraph.com/bitcoin-price" rel="null" target="null" text="null" title="null">BTC</a>) to counter rising inflation and reduce dependence on the US dollar, El Salvador is betting on AI and other tech for revenue generation.&nbsp;
ARK Invest CEO Cathie Wood recently predicted that El Salvador’s gross domestic product (GDP) could <a data-ct-non-breakable="null" href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/el-salvadors-gdp-rise-10-fold-bukeles-next-term-cathie-wood" rel="null" target="null" text="null" title="null">increase tenfold by 2029</a>.&nbsp;
Wood met with Bukele in May to discuss investment opportunities in El Salvador related to Bitcoin, AI and other tech innovations, as well as tax policies.
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Following the meeting with Bukele, Wood said:
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 “President Bukele’s determination to turn El Salvador into an oasis for the Bitcoin and AI communities — two of the biggest economic and technology revolutions in history — is the reason I believe that its real GDP could scale 10-fold during the next five years.”
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In <a data-ct-non-breakable="null" href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/el-salvador-bitcoin-three-years-anniversary" rel="null" target="null" text="null" title="null">over three years since adopting Bitcoin as legal tender</a>, El Salvador has made over $31 million in profit. Bukele’s main objective behind Bitcoin adoption was to promote financial inclusion, facilitate more efficient remittance payments and attract financial innovation.
 Magazine: <a data-ct-non-breakable="null" href="https://cointelegraph.com/magazine/solana-printing-tokens-bots-subsidies/" rel="null" target="null" text="null" title="null">What Solana’s critics get right… and what they get wrong</a>

Nayib Bukele meets Elon Musk at Tesla to discuss AI, future of humanity

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