Punishment is part of justice. Seeing that somebody who does wrong intentionally and with malice suffers, proportionally, is part of the lesson that the justice system teaches.
In my opinion, punishment is important for the victim (to see that they are protected, and to satiate any craving for extra judicial revenge), society at large (to demonstrate that there is a governing body that will not let people get away with causing harm), and for the criminal themselves (to show that harmful acts will result in reprisal).
It crucially can’t be the whole lesson, though. There has to be guidance, forgiveness (on a legal level), and a corrective path available to people who hurt others. Punishment on its own often just perpetuates systems that produce criminality, and isn’t enough to effectively reform people who have done wrong.
Obviously this is entirely stupid and Musk’s brain is full of holes, but when he says “rewrite the entire corpus of human knowledge, adding missing information” does he mean adding missing information to all of human knowledge? Where’s his chatbot gonna get this magical unknown knowledge from? Lol.
The guy needs a tolerance break from everything, badly needs to sober up for a second and see if there’s anything that can be rescued from the chemical stew he’s boiled his noggin in these past few years.