Elon Musk: Even in an Easy Future, Human-to-Human Competition Will Thrive

Elon Musk: Maybe the future will get too easy, but we'll still have human-to-human competitions.

“If things actually get too easy, maybe we get bored. You want, to some degree, to overcome adversity. If you play a game of some kind, you want the game to be not too easy and not too hard.

And maybe the future will be too easy, potentially. It's a high-class problem.

But I think we'll still have human-to-human competitions. If you look at athletics or even mind games like chess, although computers can beat any human at chess, chess is actually at an all-time high in popularity.

And although cars can go faster than any humans, we still have athletic sports where humans compete against each other. So, I think we'll still have human versus human competitiveness.”

Tesla All-Hands Meeting, March 20, 2025