Elon Musk thinks we are heading towards a world where “no job is needed”, with AI doing “everything” and humans living on some form of universal basic income and free to do whatever they want. Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, meanwhile, predicts the next generation of millionaires in the medium term will be electricians, plumbers and tradespeople, as AI drives a global boom in data centres and physical infrastructure.
Today’s AI and robotics trends suggest they may both be right.
Robots can now write production-grade code – with frontier AI systems like Claude already matching or outperforming human developers on many standard benchmarks – and large language models pass professional exams such as the US Uniform Bar Exam at roughly human levels. In that fast-changing context, the old assumption that “white-collar work is safe” unravels fast. Even in hospitals, robotic-assisted surgery has gone from pilot to routine practice. Abu Dhabi’s Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City has completed more than 500 robotic surgeries since 2020, while Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi performed more than 400 in 2024 alone.
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