Take-Two's chief executive officer, Strauss Zelnick, previously responded to Elon Musk's assertion that artificial intelligence will become good enough to generate games on the level of Grand Theft Auto 6 by saying that's impossible because AI only scrapes from existing data, and is therefore by definition derivative.
Now, Strauss has once again indirectly responded to another one of Musk's predictions: that people won't have to work anymore because of the automation offered by AI, and the money generated by the technology will allow governments to give everyone Universal Basic Income — because the world's richest man knows all about wealth equality, right?
Strauss has always been firm in his belief that AI won't replace jobs, reiterating his stance at Semafor World Economy 2026, a business conference (via GTA 6 Countdown).
"Remember the 'paperless office' anyone? Do you know what year that was promulgated?" Strauss asked the audience. "I do, 1972. We were promised that, because of digital technology, we'd have a paperless office. We use more paper in offices than ever before... just a fact, and we employ more people in offices than ever before."
"If AI were going to get rid of employment... the richest man on Earth, Elon...
