Elon: Welcome to AI ‘job’ doom

It’s hard to say exactly what that moment is, but there will come a point where no job is needed.

— Elon Musk

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak (inset below left) and Elon Musk discuss the implications of AI at a summit in the UK, where the multibillionaire mogul teased the release of his artificial intelligence startup xAI — and predicted the tool would eventually kill all jobs.

Elon Musk teased the release of his artificial intelligence startup xAI’s first tool on Friday — even as the freewheeling billionaire predicted that advanced AI tools could eventually replace all jobs.

The 52-year-old tech tycoon — who has expressed concern that AI could wipe out humanity without proper guardrails in place — said his firm will “release its first AI to a select group” beginning Saturday.

“In some important respects, it is the best that currently exists,” Musk said in a Friday post on X. He did not elaborate on who would test the tool or its purported capabilities.

Musk announced the AI tool’s debut just hours after he discussed the technology’s potential implications alongside British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak at the AI Safety Summit in the UK. During the event, Musk said AI could potentially become “the most disruptive force in history” as advancements were made.

‘It’ll do everything’

“It’s hard to say exactly what that moment is, but there will come a point where no job is needed,” Musk said, according to CNBC. “You can have a job if you wanted to have a job for personal satisfaction. But the AI would be able to do everything.”

“I don’t know if that makes people comfortable or uncomfortable,” Musk quipped, drawing laughter from the audience.

Musk launched xAI in July and tapped Igor Babuschkin, formerly of Google-owned DeepMind, to lead the project. The firm is expected to work closely with his other companies, including Tesla and X.

At the time, the Tesla boss said his AI team would try to boost humanity’s “understanding of the universe” through its advancements and provide an alternative to tools developed by Microsoft-backed OpenAI and Google.

The X owner is pressing forward with his own initiative months after he joined more than 1,000 experts in publicly calling for a six-month pause in the development of advanced AI models.