Elon Musk makes big 'working will be optional in future' prediction due to AI in Nikhil Kamath's podcast

While speaking to Zerodha co-founder Nikhil Kamath on the People by WTF podcast, Elon Musk predicted that work will become optional in the future due to rapid advancements in AI and robotics.

"My prediction is, in the future, working will be optional. They don't have to— I mean, look, obviously, people can play this back in 20 years and say, 'Look, Elon made this ridiculous prediction and it's not true.' But I think it will turn out to be true that, in less than 20 years, but maybe even as little as, I don't know, ten or 15 years, the advancements in AI and robotics will bring us to the point where working is optional," said Elon Musk while speaking to Kamath.

"In the same way that, like, say, you can grow your own vegetables in your garden or you could go to the store and buy vegetables. You know. It's much harder to grow your own vegetables. But some people like to grow their vegetables, which is fine. But it'll be optional, in that way, is my prediction," said Musk.


'I'm confident that if AI and robotics continue to advance — which they are advancing very rapidly — like I said, working will be optional, and people will have any goods and services that they want. 'If you can think of it, you can have it' type of thing," said Musk.