And in the relatively near future, AI will be underwriting our loans, building our homes, assessing our performance and even hiring and firing us - making far more accurate predictions than the best human professionals. It’s easy to imagine warehouse workers, assemblers, construction workers, and plumbers going next. This means that intelligent robots are already replacing, in the words of Musk, “dangerous, repetitive and boring tasks.” AI’s main advantage over humans lies in its ability to detect incredibly subtle patterns within large quantities of data - also known as “complex information processing”. But by the end of the 21st Century, thanks to AI, we may be thinking about jobs in a completely different way. The elephant in the room - AI’s upper hand and mass job displacementĪsk any politician what they’re most concerned about, and you’ll usually get the same answer: creating jobs. We need a new social contract for an AI-enabled post-work world - and we should start thinking about it now. I believe there needs to be a fundamental and historic shift in the way we think about - and relate to - both technology and the world of work. The question is how we’re going to prepare. But he was right about one thing: AI and robotics could eventually lead to a future where technology is so advanced that our role, much of our work and even our purpose in life could fundamentally change.Īs someone who has studied and worked in AI for the better part of four decades, my contention is that this change will likely come faster and go further than many of us anticipate - even if it’s driven more by AI-powered software than dancing robots.
The presentation itself was slightly bizarre, both because the bot was represented on stage by a dancing human in a bodysuit, and because Musk has warned for years about the dangers of artificial intelligence. In August, Elon Musk announced that he was developing a humanoid robot called “Tesla Bot” - a prototype of which will supposedly be ready in 2022. A human perspective shift for the 21st Century.
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