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Elon Musk is more at risk of losing his job to AI than artists are ...
(Image credit: Bloomberg) Strauss Zelnick, the CEO of Take-Two Interactive was recently asked about the integration of AI within games like Grand Theft Auto 6, what its actual use case is, and what it means for artists and other developers. Surprisingly, Zelnick isn't worried about the job security of his artists, instead he's more concerned about the richest man in the world."If AI were going to get rid of employment, the richest man on Earth, Elon Musk, knows a little something about AI, last time I checked," Zelnick says during an interview at the Semafor World Economy 2026 panel. "He has unlimited financial resources and he has unlimited human resources and he has, apparently, an unlimited amount of ideas, he also knows his way around AI. The man works 20 hours a day, if AI were going to take anyone's job wouldn't it take his job, the richest guy on Earth. Wouldn't that be like job number one for AI to take. Why is he so busy?" (Image credit: Rockstar Games)"Maybe Elon Musk is indeed a simulation, it's possible," Zelnick adds. "I mean in fairness if you were going to choose one person who was a simulation he would be my number one choice."Article continues below On the other hand, Zelnick seems to think that AI will be nothing but a help to his artists, as it acts as the heavy lifter, taking mundane jobs away from devs: "The three part strategy of Take-Two is 'Be the most creative. Be the most innovative. Be the most efficient' and we think AI informs all three. Briefly on creativity, anything you can do that reduces mundane work means our creators can do more exciting work."We've actually seen some developers use machine learning to cut out the busy work, such as World of Warcraft. Franchise director John Hight previously explained that while WoW isn't fully buying into the generative AI rush the team is prepared to use machine learning to automate certain processes. A good example of this is how 2018's Into the Spiderverse used machine learning to help redraw thousands of comic book ink lines on existing panels. (Image credit: Rockstar)"When I started in the videogame business which was, believe it or not, in 1993, if you wanted to create a lawn, an artist had to create individual blades of grass otherwise it would look like concrete," Zelnick continues. "Today, pre-AI, if one of my artists, and I have many thousands of them, want to create a lawn, they press the lawn button, and AI does that on steroids."So what does that mean? That does not mean...
Elon Musk calls for government cash to counter AI job losses
April 20, 2026, 7:05 a.m. ETElon Musk is calling for the government to guarantee “Universal HIGH INCOME” for Americans to offset looming job losses caused by artificial intelligence.Adopting what is usually considered a progressive stance, the world’s richest man said Uncle Sam should write fat checks to Americans to keep us living large even if platforms like Chat GPT, Claude and his own Grok spawn a torrent of pink slips.“Universal HIGH INCOME via checks issued by the Federal government is the best way to deal with unemployment caused by AI,” Musk tweeted early Friday.He claimed that increased productivity from AI will counteract the rising price pressures that conservative economists often say are a side effect of massive government spending programs.“AI/robotics will produce goods & services far in excess of the increase in the money supply, so there will not be inflation,” Musk said.With Americans jittery about the impact of AI, Musk’s call for free money to ease the pain may have struck a nerve: a whopping 38 million people read the post in its first 12 hours online.Musk appears to be boosting an enhanced version of a stance called Universal Basic Income, which calls for a government to provide citizens with enough cash to pay for necessities like rent, food, health and education, with no strings attached.The idea is to keep all people contributing to the economy and society even if they are unable to find a job or make enough money on their own.It’s somewhat of puzzler to hear Musk, an on-and-off Republican supporter of President Trump, call for such a gusher of government handouts.The Tesla and SpaceX mogul has devoted most of his time and political capital to calling for draconian cuts to government spending. His short-lived Department of Government Efficiency, which he briefly spearheaded, cut funding for programs like lifesaving health and food assistance overseas.Musk even appeared onstage at a conservative political event with a chainsaw to dramatize his eagerness to cut government spending and tame what he has called an unsustainable federal deficit.Trump’s DOGE-inspired cuts to Medicare and even food stamps have left low-income Americans with less disposable income, not more spending power.Musk broke with Trump in a huff in part over his complaint that the Republican leader’s One Big Beautiful Bill didn’t go far enough the slash what he calls waste, fraud and abuse in government programs. He vowed to bankroll his own new third party but late...
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