Comment by Elon Musk

Founder of SpaceX, cofounder of Tesla, SolarCity & PayPal
But if you have ubiquitous AI that is essentially free or close to it and ubiquitous robotics, then you will have an explosion in the global economy, an expansion in the global economy that is truly beyond all precedent. [...] The robots will actually make so many robots and AI that they will actually saturate all human needs. Meaning you won't be able to even think of something to ask the robot for at a certain point. Like there would be such an abundance of goods and services.
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AI Verified Quote attributed to Elon Musk: "But if you have ubiquitous AI that is essentially free or close to it and ubiquitous robotics, then you will have an explosion in the global economy... beyond all precedent. [...] The robots will actually make so many robots and AI that they will actually saturate all human needs. Meaning you won't be able to even think of something to ask the robot for at a certain point. Like there would be such an abundance of goods and services." The WEF source URL returned HTTP 403 to direct fetch, but web search confirmed the quote from that exact World Economic Forum Davos 2026 page and corroborating coverage (CBS News, AI Magazine, transcripts): at Davos 2026 Musk said ubiquitous near-free AI plus ubiquitous robotics would produce "an explosion in the global economy that is truly beyond all precedent," that robots/AI would "saturate all human needs," that "you won't be able to even think of something to ask the robot for," yielding "such an abundance of goods and services." Author attribution correct. Source is the primary WEF story. Year 2026 (January, Davos) correct and relevant. Vote alignment: the quote is strongly optimistic that AI/robotics will create unprecedented abundance, consistent with a "for" position on "AGI will create abundance" (author already has a vote on this statement). Verified. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 11d ago
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