Elon Musk never tires of talking about artificial intelligence and in Computer Today We attest to this, since there is not a week in which we do not echo the amount of atrocities that he says in relation to this technology and the future that it predicts with its rise. Hint: it’s not encouraging at all.
That, at least, is the usual tone of the tycoon, who has now decided to give another version of what he expects from AI and It seems that it is going to be much less harmful than it seems, since it will allow us to continue living without working and without generating money. Impossible? Not for him.
In a recent post shared on his X profile, its owner has assured that, in the future, it will not be necessary to save. «There will be universal high incomes,» he assured, in a publication that currently has more than 17,000 I like.
In reality, Musk was responding to Ray Dalio, a well-known investor who announced donations to promote what are known as Trump accountsa savings and investment mechanism that is part of the federal One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA).
«It is a favorable scenario»
Elon Musk has given as many statements about AI as there are versions of the future that he predicts for this technology and there is one of them that has drawn special attention, which is that artificial intelligence will be responsible for maintaining our levels of wealth and economic stability without us having to work.
One of the times that stands out Yahoo! Financetook place at the Viva Technology conference in Paris, in May 2024, where it addressed the impact of these technologies on employment. «In a favorable scenario, «Probably none of us will have a job.»he stressed.
These words, which, as one might expect, were highly criticized, had a double meaning, because, in reality, they advanced something presumably positive for people. «There will be a universal high income and not a universal basic income. There will be no shortage of goods or services,» he stressed.
What Musk wanted to say, in other words, is that people will not have to get up early and work for hours in front of a computer, in a shop or in a laboratory to earn their bread, but they will be in charge of taking advantage of AI.
As? Putting her at her disposal so that she is the one who works and not the humans who are her slaves. Of course the idea is not bad, but it would not be bad to consider it well. What are the ethical limits of this proposal and if it would really be possible.
‘Money will no longer be relevant,’ said billionaire
The vast majority of statements by the Tesla co-founder also usually involve more than one raising of eyebrows from other public figures and anonymous people. Hence what he said the other day left more than one person embarrassed.
«The question will really be the meaning [de la vida]. «If a computer can do it and robots can do it better than you… does your life have meaning?» Musk rambled, according to statements collected by Fox Business.
On the other hand, he pointed out that the work «will be optional» and that It will be something more similar to leisure or a hobby than to work as we currently understand it, to survive, to top it off by ensuring that «money will no longer be relevant.» It is still curious that a person who amasses such amounts of dollars and literally has the world in his hands would say something like this…