{"id":211248,"date":"2025-11-20T13:29:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T09:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=211248"},"modified":"2025-11-20T15:03:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T11:03:23","slug":"musk-says-ai-and-robotics-will-make-work-optional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/211248\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk says AI and robotics will make work \u2018optional\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Elon Musk predicted a future where money will “stop being relevant,” thanks to AI and robotics, Business Insider<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n

At the U.S.-Saudi Investment Forum on Monday Musk mentioned the end of work itself, saying that it will be “optional,” like “playing sports or a video game.”<\/p>\n

He compared the future of work to gardening.<\/p>\n

“You can go to the store and just buy some vegetables, or you can 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,” he said. “That will be what work is like: optional.”<\/p>\n

Over the past few months, Musk has shared his vision for a future with AI. That includes ending poverty, something he described at a recent investor meeting.<\/p>\n

“People often talk about eliminating poverty, giving everyone amazing medical care. There’s actually only one way to do that, and that’s with the Optimus robot,” Musk said at the shareholder event earlier this month.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Elon Musk predicted a future where money will “stop being relevant,” thanks to AI and robotics, Business Insider writes. At the U.S.-Saudi Investment Forum on Monday Musk mentioned the end of work itself, saying that it will be “optional,” like “playing sports or a video game.” He compared the future of work to gardening. “You […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":87263,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43,47,50,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-society","category-science","category-social"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211249,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211248\/revisions\/211249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}