Elon Musk says work will be "optional" in the future thanks to AI

Elon Musk told the U.S.-Saudi Arabia Investment Forum that in the next 10 to 20 years, work will be "optional."

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00:00Say like in the long term, where will things end up?

00:03Long term, I don't know what long term is.

00:05Maybe it's 10, 20 years or something like that.

00:07For me, that's long term.

00:08My prediction is that work will be optional.

00:10I mean, it'll be like playing sports or a video game or something like that.

00:14If you want to work, you know, in the same way like you can go to the store and just buy some vegetables,

00:21or you could grow vegetables in your backyard.

00:24It's much harder to grow vegetables in your backyard, but some people still do it,

00:27because they like growing vegetables.

00:29That will be what work is like, optional.