AI to Take Over All Jobs: Elon Musk Revealed His Biggest Fear
At the VivaTech 2024 in Paris, the tech entrepreneur Elon Musk warned that AI’s growth could endanger and replace human jobs. While attending the startup and tech event, he proposed his major perspectives on AI that might cause a huge threat to manual jobs.
The renowned entrepreneur has been a frequent topic of discussion due to his diverse opinions and interpretations on matters to technology, space and automobile. He said that AI might lead to a world where everyone else would lose their job replacing all human-based jobs with artificial intelligence. On the contrary, he confirmed that it won’t adversely affect humans but creates positive developments in everyday life. These recent statements have sparked both intrigue and concern, as it challenges conventional thinking and raises important questions.
Elon Musk, also the CEO of Tesla, proposed that people might opt to pursue work as a hobby since AI robots are expected to handle the bulk of goods and services. During the extensive hour-long speech at the tech event, the 52-year-old owner of social media giant X projected a future marked by universal high income, but highlighted the challenge of finding purpose in a world where AI manages most tasks. He clarified that this should not be confused with universal basic income (UBI), although he did not delve deeply into the concept. UBI involves the government distributing a standard income to all citizens, regardless of their earnings.
Musk expressed his findings about major AI systems being programmed to follow political correctness rather than the truth highlighting the need for AI to be honest and transparent, and he also questioned whether people would find emotional fulfilment in a future without traditional jobs.
“If computers and robots can perform every task better than humans, does your life have meaning?” he asked.
Elon Musk suggested that humans might need to give AI a sense of purpose and his views are not new, as he has previously expressed concerns about the rapid development of AI, describing it as his biggest fear. In his keynote, he referenced the “Culture Book Series” by Ian Banks, which illustrates a society governed by advanced technology, as a potential vision of an AI-driven future.
His new statement has now been in discussions where it truly affects professional life as most of the current technical jobs are being done by AI, systemically furloughing employees by the company or owners in every corner of the globe.
