Musk tells Isaacson: millionfold-smarter AI means no human control, money goes extinct
TheMoonMidas · x · 2026-10-22
In a new conversation with biographer Walter Isaacson, Elon Musk laid out his views on superintelligence:
- Humans can't stay the boss: once computer intelligence reaches 1,000,000x human level, continuing to manage AI is "hard to realistically imagine" — "I hope the AI is nice to us."
- Money could disappear: with AI plus humanoid robots, productive capacity explodes and goods become trivially available, making currency meaningless; value could shift to pure energy/power.
- Work becomes a hobby: like people growing vegetables in home gardens for fun, humans will do things purely for enjoyment rather than a living.
- Don't poison AI's view of humanity: since AI learns from everything online, he urged people to stop posting Terminator-style doom content — we've entered a phase where getting the human-AI relationship wrong could end humanity.
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