Elon Musk has made a series of high-profile predictions about the near future, promising humanity an era of universal abundance thanks to the development of robotics and "superintelligence" (that's what the billionaire has come to call artificial intelligence at the behest of Donald Trump).
According to the entrepreneur, the technological leap will happen "very quickly" and will radically change the global economy.
Musk is confident that the technology will fully meet people's basic needs. "Superintelligence will fully satisfy all human needs. There will be universal high income, ultra high income, universal health care that will be better than the best medical care on the planet today."
The entrepreneur calculated that humanoid robots capable of working around the clock (168 hours a week) would be five times more productive than humans. He estimates that only 20 to 30 million of these machines can produce the same volume of goods and services that currently provide about 120 million working Americans.
According to Musk's predictions, the introduction of digital super-intelligence alone (even without taking into account mass robotization) will accelerate global GDP by 20-30%, which will bring an additional $25 trillion to the global economy.