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Musk tells Isaacson "AI and robots" will need to patch deficit
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He doesn't like people calling him, being upset about. some funding being stopped.
Key facts
- Isaacson includes his warning in the new preface to an updated edition, published this week, of his sweeping 2014 history of the digital age, "The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses
- Musk's comments to Isaacson, author of the definitive 2023 biography, "Elon Musk", admit that DOGE was a flop, but point to the chance that some future administration will take a new stab
- Elon Musk tells biographer Walter Isaacson in a new podcast interview that the fizzled DOGE experiment, which the SpaceX and Tesla CEO once headed, proved there's "no way they were gonna solve
- When Isaacson asked Musk if his time in the West Wing had been too seductive, in a way, Musk replied: "It was, a little bit
Summary
Elon Musk tells biographer Walter Isaacson in a new podcast interview that the fizzled DOGE experiment, which the SpaceX and Tesla CEO once headed, proved there's "no way we were gonna solve the deficit from within the government. Musk said the appetite to cut spending "is not there at the presidency, the House, the Senate or the judiciary. The reporter is there in the Oval Office while all these, like, big momentous decisions are being made. Isaacson includes his warning in the new preface to an updated edition, published this week, of his sweeping 2014 history of the digital age, "The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution.