AI to make all jobs redundant, Musk tells Sunak

The time will come when artificial intelligence (AI), replaces all jobs, according to SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk.

The time will come when artificial intelligence (AI), replaces all jobs, according to SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk.

“I think we are seeing the most disruptive force in history here,” Mr. Musk, who owns social media platform X, told U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. Mr. Sunak was in a telecast conversation with Mr. Musk at the end of a two-day summit on AI safety held by the British government in Bletchley Park.

“...We will have [for] the first time something that is smarter than the smartest human,” Mr. Musk said.

“There will come a point where no job is needed,” he said, adding that it was hard to tell when that point would be reached. and that human beings will be challenged to find meaning in their lives.

Mr. Musk said that, on balance, “most likely” AI would be a force for good, but there was a chance of things going bad.

“I think there might be, at times, too much optimism about technology and I say that as a technologist,” he said.

At another point in their interview, Mr. Musk said that in the future there would not be universal basic income but universal high income, although he did not explain the mechanism through which this would be achieved.