Musk shared his thoughts on the subject through a question-and-answer session at the most recent South by Southwest (SXSW) Conference in Austin. He made it clear that he wasn’t predicting that humanity was about to enter the dark ages, but that there’s some probability that it will. He even specifically utters the words, “third world war.” (Related: MUSK: Humans must become cyborgs to survive in dystopian future.)