Artificial intelligence will soon be able to take on all jobs, and do them better than humans. Elon Musk depicted this bitter reality at a conference held in Paris.
If Elon Musk gets his way, workplaces will soon be deserted — and that's not a bad thing. Because artificial intelligence (AI) can take over people's jobs. “None of us will probably get a job,” Musk said on Thursday at the FIFA Tech 2024 technology conference in Paris. Rather, the functions are “optional.”
“If you want to do something that's like a hobby, you can do something,” Musk said. “But other than that, AI and robots will provide whatever goods and services they want.” The only condition, according to Musk: there must be high global income. However, Musk did not explain anything about what that would look like.
However, experts give the obvious: Although AI capabilities have increased rapidly in recent years, meaning regulators, businesses and consumers are still figuring out how to use the technology responsibly, researchers at MIT have also found that AI in the workplace Much slower than artificial intelligence. Fear will be introduced. Jobs that require high emotional intelligence and human interaction are unlikely to be affected anyway.
Musk: People give meaning to artificial intelligence
However, Musk is not enthusiastic about this vision either. He has publicly expressed his concerns: In a future without jobs, Musk wondered whether people would feel emotionally fulfilled. “The question would be really meaningful,” he said. Because if computers and robots could do everything better than humans, what meaning would life have? “I think humans may still have a role to play in this, where we can give meaning to artificial intelligence.”
