Elon Musk in new upcoming interview says AI and robots will need to fix the deficit: "There's no way we were gonna solve the deficit from within the government. The only way we're going to solve the national debt is with AI and robots. We're not gonna solve it by trying to save our way there. The appetite to cut spending is not there at the presidency, the House, the Senate or the judiciary. Basically, no one in authority in the government whatsoever — with maybe a few rare exceptions. Maybe if the president made that his primary goal, we could do that. If you try to solve the deficit and stop wasteful spending, you make a lot of enemies. President Trump likes to be liked. He doesn't like people calling him, being upset about ... some funding being stopped. I kinda got carried away, basically and was gone for too long from my companies. What I should have done was be more in the background ... and probably only had it last for a month or two. I should have gone back and focused on AI a little sooner than I did." The full podcast interview with Walter Isaacson drops this Tuesday.