During an uncommon
interview conducted by UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, the tech billionaire Elon Musk predicted that if AI is not regulated, there will be a time when no job will be needed. This means that AI tools would take over the entire work of men making paid jobs become reductant. He even claimed that humanoid robots might be a perfect friend for one of his sons who is having difficulty in having friends. I have always believed that regardless of how sophisticated these AI tools become, they will never replace humans. But hearing this prediction for an individual who has a full understanding of the AI sector is frightening. Elon Musk owns an AI company, xAI, that is competing with big AI firms like OpenAI, Google and Anthropic.
These comments can increase the fear and anxiety workers always had that these super-computers will replace them in future. What are your thoughts regarding the statement by Elon, do you think we should take him seriously?
Just because Elon might have invested in a few ai companies does not make him exceptionally knowledgeable about the future of AI. He might know slightly more than the average person, as things will have been explained to him in layman's terms, but intelligence wise he is not the one putting the technical work in to advance the technology. If you're talking a hundred years down the line, sure AI might be heading that direction, but right now it is just nibbling away at certain work sectors and is demonstrating flaws such as a bias it might have picked up from all the stuff it has ingested. Elon loves to pretend he is an expert in many fields, but is quite fickle and has cursory information that he tries to project into higher meaning.