Elon Musk ranks low birth rate first among his biggest worries; calls it 'riskier than AI'

Elon Musk has given his most serious warning against  declining world population saying that if trend continues, humanity will cease to exist. In his recent tweets, Musk said that he places problem of low fertility rates on top of his list of biggest worries and ded that this is a bigger risk than Artificial Intelligence (AI) taking over world. Since late last month, Musk has been retweeting one of his posts wherein he highlighted that birth rate in US has been below sustainable level for about fifty years now. 

When asked about a solution to reverse trend of declining birth rates, "have kids" is only vice Musk gave. Earlier this month, Musk, who is planning to make humanity a spacefaring civilisation said that contrary to popular belief, Earth can sustain a population much bigger than current size.

"Earth could sustain many times its current human population and ecosystem would be fine. We definitely don’t have “too many people," one of his tweets re. In anor instance, Musk said that last two years have been a "demographic disaster" and stated that rich people having more kids is "highly unusual." He has even called himself a "rare exception" in terms of having eight kids while being world's richest person.

'We need people for Mars': Musk

Musk, on many occasions, has reiterated that if re are not enough people for Earth, re won't be enough for Mars. He has even claimed that world will see a population collapse in next twenty years, a claim which is backed by several studies. According to Epoch Times, a recent demographic study backed by Gates Foundation and published in Lancet suggested that  global population will peak at 9.7 billion within this century and n decline rapidly. 

China is expected to lose around 668 million people by end of this century whereas India will reportedly lose around 290 million people. Earlier a BBC report published in 2020 warned that about 23 countries, majority of m in Europe, will see ir population drop to half current number by 2100.