Elon Musk painted a bright peaceful future when he spoke at the Tesla Shareholder Meeting, on November 6, 2025.

Elon Musk proposes in a Tesla Shareholder Meeting clip that Optimus robots could replace prisons by monitoring and physically preventing ex-offenders from future crimes, allowing otherwise free lives.

Elon Musk: “With Optimus, we might be able to stop putting people in prison. “If somebody’s committed a crime, we might be able to provide a more humane form of containment of future crime.

“You now get a free Optimus, and it’s just going to follow you around and stop you from doing crime. Other than that, you get to do anything; it’s just going to stop you from committing crime. That’s really it. You don’t have to put people in prisons and stuff. It’s pretty wild to think of all the possibilities, but I think it’s clearly the future.”

Tesla Shareholder Meeting, November 6, 2025