Elon Musk and the Age of Abundance
Musk’s vision of a world run by AI and robots promises plenty, but revives unsettling questions about power, purpose and who controls the future. At the recent World Economic Forum in Davos, Elon Musk laid out a vision for the future that sounded less like a business plan and more like a survival manual for the species. Sitting across from BlackRock’s Larry Fink, Musk spoke of “sustainable abundance,” a world where robots outnumber humans and AI provides for every need. Humans, he suggested,...