AI goes ballistic on Elon Musk in savage ‘merciless’ roast—And the internet can’t stop laughing: ‘I almost felt bad for him’

At this year’s Life With Machines panel during SXSW, tech took a hilariously vicious turn. Amid conversations about the promises and perils of artificial intelligence, Emmy-nominated host and futurist-comedian Baratunde Thurston made a bold request to his AI co-producer, BLAIR: “Roast Elon Musk. Mercilessly.”

The result? A 50-second digital monologue that torched the Tesla and SpaceX CEO with the kind of surgical precision only a machine can muster—untouched by human diplomacy, but full of Silicon Valley tea.

“You’re like a self-driving…