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Elon Musk Predicts AI ‘Age Of Abundance’

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Date Published
24 July 2026
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24 July 2026, 08:03 am

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Elon Musk says AI will surpass human intelligence in five years and robots in the workplace will make money meaningless in 10 years.

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Elon Musk asserts that artificial intelligence will surpass individual human intelligence within five years, leading to a radical economic shift where traditional labor and currency become obsolete. These projections highlight the accelerating trajectory of frontier AI capabilities and the potential for total societal transformation or destabilization. While the 'age of abundance' framing is optimistic, the rapid timeline for superintelligence underscores urgent global concerns regarding alignment and control of autonomous systems. This development serves as a high-profile data point in the discourse on managing the transition to a post-AGI world and mitigating associated catastrophic risks.