The full-length interview with Elon Musk | The Economist

Musk lays out his ten-year picture for The Economist: AI and humanoid robots ushering in “an age of amazing abundance,” where goods and services become so cheap that money itself may lose relevance. Along the way he weighs the questions the optimism raises — whether anyone can control systems smarter than us, how the global AI race constrains what any one lab can choose, and what work and income mean when machines do most of both. The conversation also ranges into his politics, which have become inseparable from how his AI ambitions are received.