Elon Musk Predicts Optional Work Future with AI

Elon Musk envisions a future where AI takes over industries, making jobs optional and akin to hobbies. At the Vivatech trade fair, he described this 'benign' scenario as the most likely outcome, with robots providing all necessary goods and services.

Nobody would have to work in a 'benign' scenario of Artificial Intelligence taking over industries, tech billionaire Elon Musk said on Thursday, adding that this scenario in his view was the most likely.

"Long-term, in a benign scenario, any job that somebody does will be optional, like if you want to do a job as kind of like a hobby. You do a job, but otherwise the AI and the robots will provide any goods and services that you want," Musk told the Vivatech trade fare in Paris via a video link.