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?
OP you know it's funny saying about his prediction being frightening, of course that was what it was aimed for, to frighten us trying to trick our mind to think that these AI robots are equivalent or super above human intellects and with their existence there should be no need for human services in the few jobs that are available but they're forgotten that it's same humans that invented/created these AI machines.
I don't expect any businessman to demarket and make his business products and services seem less but one thing I can be sure about AI tools is that they can't
entirely take over the jobs of humans there will always be an irreplaceable positions for humans that AI can't independently cover. So it's left for we humans to gear up and upgrade our skills to stay relevant in the competition.
You are correct and I completely agree with you, this is also the same point I made in my comment earlier, believing that Ai machines will one day take over from humans and render humans completely jobless is like believing that humans will one day become higher than He who created them us, that is God as we Christians believe.
It is nothing but pure exaggeration, it is plainly stupid to believe such, humans are the ones inventing and building Ai, if we ever arrive at a time when Ai starts rendering humans completely jobless, thereby throwing most of humans into poverty due to lack of jobs or work to do to earn money, then same humans can turn off the Ai and take their jobs back.
It is true that Ai can be faster and more efficient when it comes to rendering services and completing tasks, most especially the very complex ones, but the truth is that, they still can not run without humans interaction.