Elon Musk warns against 'too much cooperation' between countries at World Government Summit

Twitter CEO Elon Musk warned against having "too much cooperation between governments" at the World Government Summit.

In a virtual interview at the Dubai-based conference on Wednesday, Musk said: "I know this is called the World Government Summit, but I think we should be maybe a little bit concerned about actually becoming too much of a single world government."

Musk, CEO of Twitter, Tesla and SpaceX, said: "We want to avoid creating a civilizational risk by having ... too much cooperation between governments."

When one civilization is collapsing, another one is rising, such as how the fall of Rome occurred shortly before the Golden Age of Islam and important knowledge from Rome was able to be preserved in the Middle East because of this, Musk said. 

"I'm obviously not suggesting war or anything like that, but I think we want to be a little bit wary of actually cooperating too much," Musk said. "We want to have some amount of civilizational diversity such that if something does go wrong with some part of civilization that the whole thing doesn't collapse and, you know, humanity keeps moving forward."