Elon Musk, CEO of the company formerly known as Twitter (now X), has reportedly donated to a fertility and population research project in Texas. According to Bloomberg, Musk, who’s been vocal about his belief that population collapse could end humanity, gave $10 million to the Population Wellbeing Initiative (PWI), a project housed at the University of Texas at Austin, through his charitable arm The Musk Foundation. Musk funded a two-day PWI conference last October, Bloomberg reports, but the organization didn’t initially disclose the 52-year-old billionaire’s involvement. A joint program between UT Austin’s Population Research Center and its economics department, the PWI’s website describes it as “a network of researchers” who conduct foundational work in economics, demography and social welfare evaluation. Specifically, the PWI investigates and explores issues around fertility, parenting and the future of population and economic growth, as well as infant and child welfare. Business Insider notes that a paper produced by the PWI and co-written by its director, Dean Spears, includes a projection that — based on declining fertility rates — “humanity is four-fifths …

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