Elon Musk recently doubled-down on his predictions that humans would need a “universal high income” in the wake of artificial intelligence-driven job displacement.
This time claiming that without our jobs our purpose in life may eventually be to “give AI meaning.”
The bleak prognostication from the world’s richest person came during the VivaTech 2024 event in Paris as part of a winding speech wherein Musk made fervent claims that AI would provide all of our goods and services in the future.
“My biggest fear is AI,” the mogul said.
He also claimed that AI will be better than humans at everything, thus relegating our species to doing our best to support the machines:
“The question will really be one of meaning – if the computer and robots can do everything better than you, does your life have meaning? I do think there's perhaps still a role for humans in this – in that we may give AI meaning.”
