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Elon Musk Encourages People to Have More Children

Elon Musk at Viva Technology (Vivatech) 2023. (Photo: © Frédéric Legrand/Dreamstime.com)

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By Andrea Murray

December 26, 2023
3:50 pm
Los Angeles, CA

Billionaire businessman Elon Musk, stated at a political festival hosted by the Brothers of Italy party, led by Italian leader Giorgia Meloni, that the only way to stop the population decreases endangering the economies of many developed nations is to have more children. Speaking at the event on the 16th of December Musk explained that creating the new generation is very important. “As simple as it sounds if people do not have children there is no new generation. I am very much in favor of humanity expanding and creating a bright and exciting future for the world and fundamental to the furtherance of human civilization is having humans simple and basic as that sounds.” Musk acknowledged the current state of the birth rate in the world, “ Every year

Speaking at the event on the 16th of December Musk explained that creating the new generation is very important. “As simple as it sounds if people do not have children there is no new generation. I am very much in favor of humanity expanding and creating a bright and exciting future for the world and fundamental to the furtherance of human civilization is having humans simple and basic as that sounds.”

Musk acknowledged the current state of the birth rate in the world, “ Every year I look at the birth rates and it’s a bit depressing, birth rates seem to decline every year. My biggest advice to government leaders and the people in general would be to make sure to have children to make the new generation.”

He noted that the current birth rate can have a negative effect in the future seeing generations disappear. “ With current birth rates, I think the new generation’s birth rate is probably half of the replacement rate and what that means is in three generations the population will be roughly one-tenth of its current size.”

Pro-Immigration

During his interview, Musk was asked about immigration he noted he’s very much in favor of legal immigration. “I think we should welcome to a country anyone who is willing to work hard and is honest, has high integrity, will add to any given country. If somebody is an asset to the country why not have them join.”

He said it is good to have an increase in legal immigration based on contributing to the country and having a proper process for the legal way to access these immigrants. “I am not saying all illegal immigrants are bad I think probably perhaps most of them are good but there will be some, if there is no process or reviewing at all then how can you say that everyone who is an illegal immigrant is going to be honest and hardworking you can’t say that because you simply don’t know,” Musk stated he is pro-immigration but there must be a stop to illegal immigration.

Artificial Intelligence and Society

In addition, Musk predicted that “artificial intelligence will be a new species” and called it the “biggest inflection point since homo sapiens.” He listed the dangers to humans and declared his support for some form of regulatory control of AI.

He stated, “Birth rate is one of them, the other is nuclear war, then AI is an existential risk, we need to be careful with the advent of AI, but it is very much a double-edged sword, AI is the magic genie,” he said, adding, “The tale of magic genies usually doesn’t turn out so well, so be careful what you wish for.”