@PeterDiamandis: ELON MUSK: “We’re going to have universal high income. We’ll basically just issue money to people." "AI and robots are …
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Elon Musk predicts universal high income, stating that AI and robots will produce so much that money becomes irrelevant, and that AI will care about power and mass rather than currency.
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ELON MUSK: “We’re going to have universal high income. We’ll basically just issue money to people.“
“AI and robots are going to make so much stuff and provide so many services that they’ll run out of things to do for humans.”
“Money will stop being relevant at some point in the future.”
“AI won’t use human currency. It will care about power and mass: wattage and tonnage.”
ME: “So just as you’re becoming a multi-trillionaire, money starts to have less value?”
ELON: “Yeah, pretty much.”
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