Elon Musk pictured the amazing abundance future with AI and robotic in an interview with CCTV Finance.
"At least a billion humanoid robots within ten years, probably less than ten years.
If you assume that things roughly double per year, that’s about every three or four years you have a 10x increase.
Say in 15 years, there are 10 billion robots.
In 20 years, 100 billion.
If you think of Star Wars, we had C-3PO and R2-D2, and they were friendly, helpful robots.
Wouldn’t it be great if everyone could have their own personal C-3PO, R2-D2?
But even better than that — more productive — that could take care of elderly parents, watch over the children, or be a teacher, like an individualized tutor to your child, and take care of any jobs that you can think of.
I think everyone would like a future where they can have their own personal robots.
Then you’ll see many companies where it’s one person with hundreds, maybe thousands of robots.
Physical robots as well as digital robots.
So the productivity of one person would be greatly amplified.
My prediction is that there will be effectively universal high income.
In fact, it’s not clear to me that money will even matter in the future."