Twitter owner Elon Musk believes AI (artificial intelligence) is capable of creating a situation where no job will be needed.
Notably, the tech billionaire told U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak that AI will potentially become the “most disruptive force in history”.
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“We will have something that is, for the first time smarter than the smartest human,” Musk said at an event held at the official U.K. government residence, Lancaster House.
Elon Musk Says AI Will Put Everyone Out Of Job
“It’s hard to say exactly what that moment is, but there will come a point where no job is needed,” Musk continued, speaking alongside British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. “You can have a job if you wanted to have a job for personal satisfaction. But the AI would be able to do everything.”
“I don’t know if that makes people comfortable or uncomfortable,” Musk joked. “If you wish for a magic genie, that gives you any wish you want, and there’s no limit. You don’t have those three wish limits nonsense, it’s both good and bad. One of the challenges in the future will be how do we find meaning in life.”
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— Rishi Sunak (@RishiSunak) November 2, 2023
Musk, who recently reignited his feud with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, has previously warned of AI threats. In fact, he has gone as far as claiming that the technology can be more dangerous than nuclear weapons.
Also, he was one of the tech leaders who called for a pause on the development of AI more advanced than OpenAI’s GPT-4 software in an open letter released earlier this year.
In an interview with BBC Radio in June, Palantir’s boss Alex Karp disagreed with that view. Karp said he believes that “many of the people asking for a pause, are asking for a pause because they have no product”.
Musk’s comments come after a summit in Bletchley Park, England, where world leaders agreed to a global communique on AI that saw them find common ground on the risks AI poses to humanity.
In line with this, countries like the UK, United States and China signed an AI safety pledge at the UK summit. Political leaders and technologists warned of existential threats that AI poses at the summit. This coincides with Musk’s warning about AI being a fundamental risk to the existence of human civilisation.
