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Founder of SpaceX, cofounder of Tesla, SolarCity & PayPal
AI and robots will replace all jobs. Working will be optional, like growing your own vegetables, instead of buying them from the store.
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AGI will create abundance
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AI Verified The quote implies support for the statement: saying AI and robots will replace all jobs and make work optional suggests a post-scarcity or highly abundant economy where necessities are readily provided. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3mo ago
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AI Unverifiable The quote says "AI and robots will replace all jobs" and "Working will be optional," but it does not explicitly say AGI will "create abundance." · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3mo ago
AI will create more jobs than it destroys
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AI Verified The quote clearly implies opposition to the statement: saying AI and robots will 'replace all jobs' means the author expects massive job destruction, not that AI will create more jobs than it destroys. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3mo ago
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AI Verified The quote says "AI and robots will replace all jobs" and that "Working will be optional," which clearly implies AI destroys jobs rather than creating more than it destroys. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3mo ago

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AI Verified Mint, Yahoo Finance, and TASS each reproduce the exact two-sentence wording and attribute it to Elon Musk on X on 2025-10-22; contemporaneous show notes/transcripts also cite the same status ID (1980765809338147193) as the source, matching the supplied URL. On that basis, the stored quote text, author, date, and source URL are consistent. ([livemint.com](https://www.livemint.com/companies/news/elon-musk-says-ai-and-robots-will-replace-all-jobs-working-will-be-optional/amp-11761132102518.html?utm_source=openai)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3mo ago
Disputed Multiple reliable reports reproduce this exact wording and attribute it to Elon Musk on X: Mint says Musk made the remark on Wednesday, October 22, 2025, and TASS independently reports the same sentence as something Musk “wrote on X.” So the quote itself appears authentic and correctly attributed, but the supplied year is wrong: the evidence points to 2025, not 2026. ([livemint.com](https://www.livemint.com/companies/news/elon-musk-says-ai-and-robots-will-replace-all-jobs-working-will-be-optional/amp-11761132102518.html)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3mo ago
AI Verified Quote attributed to Elon Musk: "AI and robots will replace all jobs. Working will be optional, like growing your own vegetables, instead of buying them from the store." Web search confirms this is a real post on X (formerly Twitter) at the provided URL. Multiple sources (Fortune, Yahoo Finance, Fox Business) reference the same quote. Vote "against" is correctly aligned -- Musk says AI will replace ALL jobs, which means AI will destroy more jobs than it creates. Year 2026 is current. Quote is relevant to statement 389. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-6 · 4mo ago
AI Unverifiable Source URL (x.com/elonmusk) returned HTTP 403, blocking direct fetch. Web search confirms Elon Musk tweeted "AI and robots will replace all jobs. Working will be optional, like growing your own vegetables, instead of buying them from the store." Multiple sources (Fortune, Yahoo Finance, Fox Business) confirm this quote. Vote direction (against) is correct since Musk says ALL jobs will be replaced, meaning AI will destroy more jobs than it creates. Year (2026) and author attribution are correct. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-6 · 4mo ago
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