Tesla CEO Elon Musk foresees future dominated by AI: ‘No phones, no apps’

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has once again been in the headlines due to his chilling forecast about how artificial intelligence will completely dominate and shape humanity’s future.

In a video clip shared on X (formerly called Twitter), SpaceX CEO shed light on the upcoming era where devices will act as edge nodes for AI interfaces, making traditional operating systems, applications, and communication services outrightly obsolete.

“There will be no conventional operating systems, mobile phones, and apps—There will only be a device and audio and most of the content people consume will be generated by only AI,” he said during the Joe Rogan Experience podcast.

Upon asking about the advent of such a future, Musk says, “ the dawn of such an era overtaken by AI will be just 5 to 6 years away.”

According to him, this change will not be limited to a single app or email platform, people will get everything through artificial intelligence.

Musk further emphasized the bandwidth limitation will prompt people to interact more with intelligent systems instead of smart phones.

Humanity is moving from screens to seamless interfaces and from apps to agentic AI. Thus, the smartphone era defines the past decade and the AI interface will define the next one.

Elon Musk’s bold prediction took the internet by storm, sparking the debate among netizens.

One user questioned, “ I don’t really understand this idea. So how do we communicate with real people like on X? How do we manage our data? Banking? Creations? AI can generate video and contents but it is not everything we need.”

The other one wrote, “The bottleneck shifts from creation to curation. When everyone can generate endless content, the real value lies in filtering, organizing, and presenting what's actually worth consuming.”

The third user replied optimistically, “Yes, it’ll be so nice when that happens. Apps are getting clunky, outdated, and a bit of a hassle… No more searching - we’ll just be fed.”

Musk’s forecast also raises questions on how willingly people would be ready to adopt this change in the near future.