Elon Musk: Humans Must Merge with Machines or Become Irrelevant in AI Age
1 min readFeb 15, 2017
It may not be coming tomorrow, but it’s coming. A new study shows that 49% of all time spent on work activities can be automated — holy shit don’t tell your boss. Instead of worrying about humans becoming irrelevant, the question really is how can we work better with robots and AI? Introducing the Neural Lace, a very futuristic idea from our friend Elon about literally connecting your brain to a robot so you can work faster and smarter. Instead of working against this movement, we need to work with it.
Thought Starter: 12 to 15% of the global workforce drives cars for a living. When AI fully kicks in and autonomous cars are the norm, what should all the drivers do? How can they work with AI?