TESLA MAKER SEES ENERGY, NOT MONEY, AS TRUE CURRENCY Musk: AI could make work optional

WORK WILL BE optional, money will vanish, and energy will become the new currency — that’s Elon Musk’s vision of a world transformed by artificial intelligence.

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In a two-hour conversation with Zerodha co-founder Nikhil Kamath on the People by WTF podcast, the Tesla and SpaceX chief predicted that AI and robotics would one day meet all human needs, erasing the foundations of today’s economy. “If AI and robotics are big enough to satisfy all human needs, then money is no longer necessary,’ he said. “Energy is the true currency.’

Musk described an AI-driven future where human labour is a choice, not a necessity. “In the future, working will be like a hobby,” he said, though he added that anyone building companies or solving difficult problems would still need to “put in serious hours.”