As you noted on your blog Elon Musk is concerned about unfriendly AI and from his comments about how escaping to mars won't be a solution because "The A.I. will chase us there pretty quickly" he might well share MIRI's fear that the AI will seek to capture all of the free energy of the universe. Peter Thiel, a major financial supporter of yours, probably also has this fear.

If after event W happens, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and a few of their peers see the truth of proposition X and decide that they and everything they care about will perish if policy Z doesn't get enacted, they will with high probability succeed in getting Z enacted.

I don't know if this story is true, but I read somewhere that when Julius Caesar was marching on the Roman Republic several Senators went to Pompey the Great, handed him a sword and said "save Rome." Perhaps when certain Ws happen we should make an analogous request of Musk or Thiel.