Grimes is making waves on social media after delivering a plea for communists to get on board with artificial intelligence.
The musical artist, whose real name is Claire Boucher, took to TikTok on Wednesday to share a video of herself explaining why she considers AI “the fastest path to communism.”
“I have a proposition for the communists,” said Grimes, 33. “So, typically, most of the communists I know are not big fans of AI. But, if you think about it, AI is actually the fastest path to communism.”
According to Grimes, “if implemented correctly,” artificial intelligence could “theoretically solve for abundance.”
“Like, we could totally get to a situation where nobody has to work, everybody is provided for with a comfortable state of being, comfortable living,” she continued. “AI could automate all the farming, weed out systemic corruption, thereby bringing us to, as close as possible, genuine equality.”
Grimes added that AI can provide “everything everybody loves about communism, but without the collective farm.”
” ‘Cause, let’s be real, enforced farming is really not a vibe,” she said.
The video has drawn over 1.6 million views on TikTok, along with criticism on Twitter.
Many have pointed out that communism calls for wealth redistribution and Boucher’s partner Elon Musk dethroned Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos as the world’s richest person in January, according to reports.
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“i can’t imagine taking grimes’s opinions on economic systems seriously when she decided to marry elon musk lol,” wrote @imalcohol1c on Twitter.
“grimes getting into communism discourse on tiktok when their man is mayor of capitalism kinda kills me,” wrote @beImonttrevor.
“excuse me if I don’t take her rambling musings about what communists ought to do seriously,” wrote @zei_squirrel.
Don’t celebrate Karl Marx. His Communism has a death count in the millions.
Grimes and her SpaceX and Tesla mastermind partner welcomed their first child together in May 2020, with Musk, 49, sharing a photo of himself holding the newborn in the hospital.
When a user inquired about the baby’s name, Musk replied “X Æ A-12 Musk.” Their baby’s name soon became a trending topic on Twitter as users shared reactions and memes inspired by the unusual name.
Grimes later tweeted a breakdown of the moniker’s meaning:
“•X, the unknown variable
•Æ, my elven spelling of Ai (love &/or Artificial intelligence)
•A-12 = precursor to SR-17 (our favorite aircraft). No weapons, no defenses, just speed. Great in battle, but non-violent
+ (A=Archangel, my favorite song) (metal rat)”
Grimes now goes by 1 letter, says her and Elon Musk’s 5-month-old son X Æ A-XII enjoys ‘radical art’
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