Elon Musk says humanoid robots will outnumber individuals as ’10 billion to invade Earth’
Elon Musk has warned the invasion of humanoid robots will see the droids outnumber us by a factor of 10. The richest man in the world shared the grim news in a video uploaded to his social media site X.
He said: “Long-term, I think there will be more… the ratio of humanoid robots will be more than one to one. There might be two humanoid robots or more, maybe ten, for every one human.
“Which means there will be well in excess of 10 billion humanoid robots”. Musk affirmed his views shared in the video by commenting, “yeah” under the clip.
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Robots have already started the invasion by taking over cooling tea by “blowing” on it, vacuuming and mowing grass. Ilia Badeev, head of data science at Trevolution Group, has had his say on the future of robots in out society.
He said: “You can see self-driving robots already replacing delivery staff, chatbots taking over some customer support tasks or even robot lawnmowers buzzing and trimming grass that used to be mowed by the neighbourhood teens. It’s an inevitable trend that will slowly but surely ‘take over’ most of the less-qualified roles from human hands.
“I’m fairly certain housekeeping roles will be the first ‘to go’. Unless you have formed an emotional bond with your help, most of the manual labour, that is often repetitive, will soon be automated.
“We no longer wash our dishes or laundry by hand, so why do we think picking up LEGOs, loading the said dishes or laundry, dusting, vacuuming or taking out the garbage will be any different?”
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He added: “Then – chauffeur roles. Companies have been innovating self-driving technology like crazy, so it won’t be unlikely to see rich kids be driven to school by heavily armoured SUVs on full autopilot in five to ten years’ time.
“In about a decade, we’re probably looking at AI replacing some white-collar jobs as well. Think junior level accountants, bankers, analysts, coders. The senior roles will still remain human but will be heavily augmented by AI.”
Chatbots have already made themselves vital to younger generations completing basic tasks. A poll found three out of 10 young people need AI to change a lightbulb.
Researchers found 31% of Generation Z, those aged 16 to 26, use AI for instructions. The study found they use AI sites like ChatGPT, Gemini or Perplexity for guidance on the basic household task.
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