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During an interview on Fox News, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent agreed with X owner Elon Musk's claim that Americans in the near future won't need to save for retirement thanks to the rapid growth of artificial intelligence.

MAGA Republican President Donald Trump's Treasury Secretary, multimillionaire Scott Bessent, decided to parrot the predictions of trillionaire Elon Musk about the future finances of average Americans.

In an interview with fellow Trump sycophant and Fox News personality Sean Hannity, the host asked Bessent about the claims Musk made about artificial intelligence. Hannity said Musk claimed in the near future, Americans wouldn't need to save for their retirement because of the "abundance" AI will create.

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[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 16 points 4 days ago

im sorry. im sorry. I meant to say americans soon won't have retirments thanks to ai.

[–] Salvo@aussie.zone 9 points 4 days ago

That is because all the data centres consuming all the electricity and water to generate heat and will make the world unliveable for humans.

We won’t survive to retirement!

[–] HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca 9 points 4 days ago

In other words, spend your money now, peons, to top up our bank accounts so we can pay to replace, repress and marginalize you. Then we won't have to worry about you or your retirement.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Sure AI and robots could take over manufacturing, but it doesn't make abundance magically. Resources are still finite, power generation to build abundance is still a problem. They are just talking nonsense to send share prices up.

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Sure AI and robots could take over manufacturing, but it doesn't make abundance magically.

And even if it did , the owners of those AI operated factories aren't going to voluntarily share that abundance with the general population.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 days ago

Yeah we'd have to move to citizen owns manufacturing, and can't see the current capitalists giving up their stake

[–] WraithGear@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

listen i know you took the article name verbatim… but at no point, and i mean at no point was he “ripped” over anything. someone agreeing with everything you said is not ripping someone… i don’t know what ripping someone would entail exactly, but it aint it.

[–] streetfestival@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

listen i know you took the article name verbatim…

Not quite. Obviously no one on 'Fox News' is going to say or ask anything with any intelligence. The "ripped" was a social media response; and I stop reading (MSM) articles when I see algorithmic social media posts. I posted this article because it's an example of how disconnected from reality and/or completely lying Chump's regime is. I believe many intelligent people did 'rip' this idiot for his idiotic line, so the headline is truthful

[–] WraithGear@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

it’s a distinction with out meaning. every opinion on the face of the earth is “ripped”.

but it doesn’t matter because i don’t hold you to the title of the article. i am blaming the authors of the article itself

blamed, smashed, cooked, slapped, ripped. it’s all derided as useless news marketing

[–] streetfestival@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago

Journalism is so dead (killed, really), eg tech journalism that parrots industry press releases verbatim even when they're BS, that I would rather a headline flag a questionable (or worse) statement as such with "blamed, smashed, etc." than present it as truth, like "Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent Says Americans Soon Won't Need Retirement Savings Thanks To AI". I'm moving on