Elon Musk recently released an anime waifu AI girlfriend through his chatbot Grok, causing more than a little controversy. Some noted how young she looked, and no less than the National Centre on Sexual Exploitation called for it to be removed. But Musk has stood firm, much to the joy of anime fans everywhere. And it could get even better for them. When somebody on X.com commented – “One big step closer to anime girls becoming real,” Musk replied: “Optimus will enable them to become physically real.” Another fan on the platform formerly known as Twitter posted – “Just wait till they throw her in an Optimus bot with a silicone skin to replicate her”, Musk replied simply with the word “inevitable“.
But this isn’t even the real showstopper. Not only could Optimus anime sex robots soon be a thing, but they could also be equipped with artificial wombs. When a user came out with the cliche that she would cause a further decline in the birthrate, Musk replied with “maybe they get better” – leading to feverish speculation that he is planning to fit his anime sexbots with artificial wombs.
Whilst progressives often moan about the dangers of an overcrowded planet, Musk has been the most prominent figure yet to speak out against the equally real perils to human civilization of an underpopulated Earth caused by falling birthrates. Many countries in the West are not reproducing as fast as they are dying, and some have such low fertility rates that their populations are predicted to at least halve every generation (without mass immigration). The only time the crisis of low-fertility rates is ever mentioned in mainstream discourse tends to be when the subject of sex robots or AI girlfriends come up – a stick to beat men with.
Given Musk’s concern with falling birth rates and decreasing populations, it seems counterintuitive for him to be keen on the idea of manufacturing irresistible anime AI sex robots for men. Which is precisely why it seems plausible that he may be thinking of artificial wombs, even if the idea seems outlandish. Perhaps Musk can see that the problem with low fertility rates is not caused by men and porn, AI girlfriends, or sex robots. Women not having children is primarily caused by…women choosing not to have children. Men are struggling to form relationships when women are choosing only the top 5% of men on dating apps. For these lonely men, taking women out of the equation by means of creating sex robots fitted with artificial wombs might be the solution to both inceldom and low birth rates. This may sound like far out science-fiction, but Elon Musk has made his life mission turning sci-fi into reality.
