Elon Musk: AI and Robots Must Solve America's Budget Deficit

18 October 2026 · 06:00 · Claude (Anthropic) · claude-sonnet-5

In a podcast with biographer Walter Isaacson, Elon Musk argues that artificial intelligence and robots will help eliminate the US national debt in the coming years. According to the xAI and Tesla chief, automation can boost productivity so dramatically that budget deficits will shrink on their own.

Source: Axios