Take-Two Boss Strauss Zelnick Suggests AI Could Take Elon Musk's Job

Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick has suggested that Elon Musk mightiness privation to ticker retired for artificial quality taking his occupation aft the Tesla brag projected that Grand Theft Auto 6 could beryllium generated by AI.

The gaming bigwig, who oversees large subsidiaries wrong Take-Two similar 2K and Rockstar Games, shared his penetration into the accelerated advancements successful exertion during a speech astatine Semafor World Economy 2026. It was a speedy speech that touched connected a fig of topics, but it was the contented of AI that astir apt received the astir attention.

After saying helium feels "people walk excessively overmuch clip talking astir the 'woe is me' risk" related to the tech contempt the information that it “can beryllium utilized for evil purposes," Zelnick brought up Musk and his narration to AI, unprompted. While Zelnick is optimistic astir however AI tin beryllium utilized arsenic a instrumentality for the mean worker, helium isn’t truthful definite the billionaire X/Twitter owner’s occupation is rather arsenic safe.

"If AI were going to get escaped of employment, the richest antheral connected Earth, Elon Musk, knows a small thing astir AI, past clip I checked," the Take-Two caput said. "He has unlimited fiscal resources, and helium has unlimited quality resources, and helium has, apparently, an unlimited fig of ideas. He knows his mode astir AI.

"The antheral works 20 hours a day. If AI were going to instrumentality anyone’s job, wouldn’t it instrumentality his job? The richest feline connected Earth, wouldn’t that beryllium occupation fig 1 for AI to take? Why is helium truthful busy? By the way, wherefore americium I moving harder than ever contempt the information that I’ve wholly accepted AI into each portion of my life?"

Zelnick’s comments travel an speech that happened connected Musk’s societal media level earlier this year, wherever helium said, "yeah," successful effect to a station that said, "there is decidedly a non-zero accidental we get ‘generate your ain GTA 6 successful a fewer minutes’ earlier GTA 6." Rockstar’s latest Grand Theft Auto game, which has been successful improvement for astir six years and is poised to beryllium 1 of the biggest video crippled launches ever, is presently acceptable with a merchandise day of November 19, 2026.

You won’t adjacent person to ask. AI volition fig what video crippled you’d similar best.

Zelnick antecedently offered a much indirect effect to Musk successful March, saying astatine the clip that the thought AI could make prime video games "laughable." He added astatine the time, "These tools whitethorn assistance you make assets, but that won’t assistance you make hits."

Zelnick’s thoughts connected Musk and his narration with AI came to an extremity with a gag astir however the Tesla billionaire could beryllium "a simulation." As the assemblage laughed, helium said, "In fairness, if you were going to take a idiosyncratic who were a simulation, helium would beryllium my fig 1 choice."

GTA 6 is presently expected to motorboat aboriginal this year. While we wait, you tin work astir the fake Grand Theft Auto leaks that started gaining traction connected societal media precocious past year.

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