{"id":209151,"date":"2025-12-01T05:55:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T05:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/209151\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T05:55:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T05:55:32","slug":"elon-musk-predicts-working-will-be-optional-within-10-20-years-due-to-ai-and-robotics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/209151\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk predicts \u2018working will be optional\u2019 within 10\u201320 years due to AI and Robotics"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk has predicted that rapid advances in artificial intelligence and robotics could make work optional within the next 10 to 20 years.<\/p>\n

Musk\u2019s vision underscores a future where human labor may no longer be a necessity for survival, with automation and AI<\/a> potentially reshaping global economies and societal structures.<\/p>\n

Musk<\/a>, during a conversation with Zerodha co-founder Nikhil Kamath<\/a> on People by WTF podcast, released on Sunday (November 30), said, \u201cMy prediction is that, in the future, working will be optional. People can play this back in 20 years and say it was wrong, but I think it will be correct. In less than 20 years, maybe even 10 or 15, advances in AI and robotics<\/a> will bring us to a point where working is optional.\u201d<\/p>\n

Comparing work to growing vegetables<\/p>\n

To illustrate his vision, Musk<\/a> compared future work to the choice of growing vegetables at home versus buying them from a store.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the same way that you can grow your own vegetables or go to a shop and buy them, it\u2019s much harder to grow your own. Some people enjoy it, which is fine. But it is optional\u2014that is how I see work in the future,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Technology and access to goods<\/p>\n

Musk<\/a> further noted that technological advances could make goods and services readily available to everyone.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m confident that if AI and robotics continue to advance\u2014and they are advancing very fast\u2014working will be optional, and people will have any goods and services they want. If you can think of it, you can have it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk has predicted that rapid advances in artificial intelligence and robotics could make work optional…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[261],"tags":[114584,291,114586,607,289,290,18,1647,114588,114581,19,17,114587,114582,1222,82,114583,114585],"class_list":["post-209151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-advances-in-ai-and-robotics","tag-ai","tag-ai-transforming-work","tag-ai-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-eire","tag-elon-musk","tag-elon-musk-on-ai-and-robotics-impact","tag-elon-musk-on-nikhil-kamath-podcast","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-nikhil-kamath-interview","tag-people-by-wtf-podcast","tag-robotics","tag-technology","tag-work-optional","tag-work-will-be-optional-says-elon-musk"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115642769266150949","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}