Elon Musk

But if you have ubiquitous AI that is essentially free or close to it, and ubiquitous robotics, then you will have an explosion in the global economy, an expansion in the global economy that is truly beyond all precedent.

Can that expansion be broad?

Yes.

Or is it narrow?

And how can that be created?

How can it broaden the global economy?

Yeah, it's... I mean, the way to think of it is that if you have a large number of humanoid robots, the economic output is...

the average productivity per robot times the number of robots.

And actually my prediction is, in the benign scenario of the future, that we will actually make so many robots in AI that they will actually saturate all human needs.

Meaning you won't be able to even think of something

to ask the robot for at a certain point.

There will be such an abundance of goods and services.

My prediction is there'll be more robots than people.

But how do you then have human purpose in that scenario?

Yeah, I mean, nothing's perfect, you know.

But it is a necessary...

Like you can't have both.

You can't have work that has to be done and amazing abundance for all.

Because if it's work that has to be done, and only some people can do it, then you can't have abundance for all.

Then it's narrow.