Dreading your morning commute? Tired of the day-to-day grind? Elon Musk says those days are coming to an end, with work being something optional for most people in the years to come.
Musk, speaking at the U.S.-Saudi Investment Forum Wednesday with Nvidia $NVDA CEO Jensen Huang, offered a bullish (even for him) view of robotics and AI, saying they would eliminate the need for people to work within the next quarter century.
"I don't know what long term is, maybe it's 10, 20 years or something like that," Musk said. "My prediction is that work will be optional."
That's not to say you won't be able to work if you don't want to, he added. It will just be optional.
"It'll be like playing sports or a video game or something like that," he said. "If you want to work in the same way, like you can go to the store and just buy some vegetables, or you could grow vegetables in your backyard. It's much harder to grow vegetables in your backyard, but some people still do it because they like growing vegetables."
So how will people pay their bills without work? Musk said he believes money will be irrelevant in the AI and robotics future.
Musk, of course, has a strong financial interest in both of those fields. Tesla $TSLA is developing the Optimus humanoid robot and his xAI could soon be worth $200 billion, more than twice its previously disclosed valuation.
He also has a long track record of poor predictions, such as saying autonomous robotaxis would be widespread by 2019 and that humans would be on Mars by 2024.