In a February 5 interview, billionaire Elon Musk doubled down both on his belief in technology and debt hawkishness as he warned that the U.S. will ‘1,000% go bankrupt’ due to the immense national burden:
“We are 1000% going to go bankrupt as a country, and fail as a country, without AI and robots. Nothing else will solve the national debt. We just need enough time to build the AI and robots to not go bankrupt before then,” Elon Musk said in the Dwarkesh Podcast.
Specifically, when discussing the creation and role of the Department of Government Efficiency (D.O.G.E) – the controversial service that ran amok in the federal government in the early months of President Trump’s second term – Musk zeroed in on the…