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Published · transcript-backedElon Musk: belief
5 Feb 2026 Dwarkesh Podcast Elon Musk — "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space”
“In fact, I think the GAO did an analysis, a rough estimate of fraud during the Biden administration, and calculated it at roughly half a trillion dollars.”
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- Speaker
- Elon Musk
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- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 5 Feb 2026
- Publisher
- Dwarkesh Podcast
Transcript context
…What would you estimate is the total amount of fraud from this mechanism? By the way, the Government Accountability Office has done these estimates before. I’m not the only one. In fact, I think the GAO did an analysis, a rough estimate of fraud during the Biden administration, and calculated it at roughly half a trillion dollars. So don’t take my word for it. Take a report issued during the Biden administration. How about that? From this Social Security mechanism?…
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