Elon Musk says AI will make jobs irrelevant

Elon Musk may be one of the biggest names in tech, but his views on how artificial intelligence will affect jobs aren't so rosy.

"AI will make jobs kind of pointless," the Tesla CEO said Thursday at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai. "Probably the last job that will remain will be writing AI software, and then eventually the AI will just write its own software."

Musk suggested people study things like engineering, physics, art or careers that involve people interacting with each other.

"People enjoy, fundamentally,...