Elon Musk is worried about the future careers of his eight children – especially if they have to compete with artificial intelligence to land their dream jobs.
How do we really find fulfillment, how do we find meaning in life, if AI can do your job better than you? Musk expressed his surprise in an interview with CNBC’s David Faber on Tuesday.
Even the world’s second-richest person expressed a desire to help lead the coming AI charge his automaker Tesla is attempting to build a fully self-driving car.
And the idea of using Twitter to build AI tools has been discussed before he expressed concern about the future of the technology.
It’s not the first time: In March, Musk signed an open letter calling for a six-month pause on AI development to ethically enforce the system, calling it “good enough for society and humanity.” deep risk”.
On Tuesday, he struggled to articulate how the next generation can find value in a world where AI can do everything. “It’s a difficult question to answer,” Musk said.
Here are two pieces of advice he said he would give to his own children: ‘Try to be as useful as possible to the rest of society’. In a way, Musk’s top piece of advice is one that would have been there before AI: Follow your passion in a way that benefits other people.
Elon Musk said, I would just say, you know what they find interesting to do, or fulfilling to do is follow their heart. And try to be as useful as possible to the rest of society.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk discusses AI’s impact on his children’s future in the workforce.
The definition of being useful to society is changing rapidly. Even before ChatGPT exploded in popularity, people wondered how AI would replace human jobs.
Office and administrative roles may be at risk. Hence the jobs creating content, from designers to software engineers although new opportunities may include training and maintaining quality control for the AI systems that create such content.
For jobs that require specific human skills, AI can become just a tool that makes the job easier. They can range from physically demanding roles in construction to communication-focused jobs such as therapists.
Dimitris Papaniklou, a finance professor at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, told CNBC Make It in February that jobs that emphasize interpersonal skills are very hard to replace by AI.
Elon Musk sleeps six hours per night, works seven days per week and only takes two or three vacations a year, he said.
Apparently, this is what it takes for Musk to simultaneously own enterprises like Neuralink and The Boring Company, to run Tesla, SpaceX and, for now, Twitter. On Tuesday, he questioned whether it was all worth it, especially if machines could eventually do the most tedious parts of those jobs.
Elon Musk said, “I’ve put a lot of blood, sweat, and tears into building companies.” “And then I’m like, ‘Okay, should I do this?’ Because if I’m sacrificing time with friends and family, but ultimately AI can do it all, does it even make sense?” I don’t know.”
This uncertainty may increase as AI becomes more and more complex. Even now, Elon Musk sometimes adopts a deliberate suspension of disbelief, finding a way to ignore the frustrating and frustrating aspects of the technology that’s helping him work his way through his workday. They said.
Not knowing what the future holds makes it difficult to advise the next generation. The only wisdom Musk can reliably carry forward, he said: Work on things that you find interesting and fulfilling, and that contribute something good to the rest of society.