Calling artificial intelligence the most disruptive force in history, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk heralded the end of the modern workforce during a fireside chat on the last day of the AI Safety Summit in Bletchley Park.

“For the first time, we will have something that is smarter than the smartest human,” Musk said. “It’s hard to say exactly what that moment is, but there will come a point where no job is needed—you can have a job if you want to have a job for sort of personal satisfaction, but the AI will be able to do everything.”

Artificial intelligence is not new. The idea of robots, supercomputers, and superintelligence goes back nearly a century. However, it was the modern advent of generative AI that forced the world to pay attention to the work computer scientists and enthusiasts have largely been doing on the fringes.

According to Musk, who likened AI to a magic genie granting wishes, the need to work will go away when most human needs are met.

“You’ll likely be able to ask for anything, and we won’t have a universal basic income, we’ll have a universal high income,” he said. “So, in some sense, it will be somewhat of a leveler, an equalizer, because everyone will have access to this magic genie.”

But while Musk predicted that AI will change the workplace as we know it, others—including British artificial intelligence researcher and co-founder of DeepMind, Go to Source to See Full Article
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