[NYPOST] Tesla founder Elon Musk has identified what he views as the three most significant existential threats facing humans — with falling global birthrates at the top of the list.
| He can claim to have done his bit: Mr. Musk has five surviving children with his first wife and two with the recent girlfriend. Most of the children were carried by surrogate mothers. |
The billionaire, who has spoken extensively about his belief that humans aren’t having enough children, reiterated his concern when asked to reveal his "biggest fear." Musk said humanity’s falling birth rate has been "troubling [him] for many years," adding that he drives his friends "crazy" by bringing it up so often.
"I spent a lot of time talking about the birthrate thing," Musk said in an interview with the Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner published over the weekend. "That might be the single biggest threat to the future of human civilization."
Musk identified two other leading existential threats: his fears of "artificial intelligence going wrong" and the rise of what he called "religious extremism."
Musk’s fear was reflected in recent data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The US birth rate declined by 4% from 2019 to 2020, marking the sixth consecutive year of declines and the lowest number of births since 1979. |