Imagine a world where humanoid robots outnumber people—this a reality Tesla CEO Elon Musk said we’ll see by the year 2040.

Musk’s prediction came during the annual Future Investment Initiative conference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Tuesday.

“I think by 2040 probably there are more humanoid robots than there are people,” Musk told the audience. “Every country will have an AI or multiple AIs, and there will be a lot of robots, way more robots than people.”

According to the U.S. Census Bureau’s World Population Clock, the number of humans currently stands at around 8.2 billion.

Musk has previously heralded the surge of humanoid robots and advanced AI and how it would impact humanity, going so far as to say humans will face a ‘crisis of meaning.’

“If you’ve got humanoid robots—when there’s no real limit on the number of humanoid robots—and they can operate very intelligently,

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Author: Jason Nelson