Elon Musk says AI will finally create a scenario the place ‘no job is required’

LONDON — Elon Musk thinks that synthetic intelligence might finally put everybody out of a job.

The billionaire know-how chief, who owns Tesla, SpaceX, X, the corporate previously often known as Twitter, and the newly fashioned AI startup xAI, stated late Thursday that AI can have the potential to develop into the “most disruptive drive in historical past.”

“We can have one thing that’s, for the primary time smarter than the neatest human,” Musk stated at an occasion at Lancaster Home, an official U.Ok. authorities residence.

“It is arduous to say precisely what that second is, however there’ll come a degree the place no job is required,” Musk continued, talking alongside British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. “You’ll be able to have a job for those who wished to have a job for private satisfaction. However the AI would have the ability to do all the pieces.” 

“I do not know if that makes individuals comfy or uncomfortable,” Musk joked, to which the viewers laughed. 

“If you want for a magic genie, that provides you any want you need, and there isn’t any restrict. You do not have these three want limits nonsense, it is each good and dangerous. One of many challenges sooner or later can be how do we discover that means in life.”

Musk has on a number of events warned of the threats that AI poses to humanity, having as soon as stated it could possibly be extra harmful than nuclear weapons. He was one in all quite a few tech leaders who urged for a pause to improvement of AI extra superior than OpenAI’s GPT-4 software program in a broadly cited open letter launched earlier this 12 months.

Different tech leaders disagree with that view, together with Palantir’s boss, Alex Karp. Talking to BBC Radio in June, Karp stated he’s of the view that “lots of the individuals asking for a pause, are asking for a pause as a result of they haven’t any product.”

Musk’s feedback Thursday comply with the conclusion to a landmark summit in Bletchley Park, England, the place world leaders agreed to a world communique on AI that noticed them discover widespread floor on the dangers the know-how poses to humanity.

Technologists and political leaders used the summit to warn of the existential threats that AI poses, specializing in a number of the doable doomsday situations that could possibly be fashioned with the invention of a hypothetical superintelligence.

The summit noticed the U.S. and China, two nations clashing essentially the most tensely over know-how, agree to seek out international consensus on sort out a number of the most complicated questions round AI, together with develop it safely and regulate it.