Evolving Technology can Cause World War III : Alibaba’s Jack Ma said while giving an interview to CNBC. The billionaire and chairmen of Alibaba said that World War I was due to first technology revolution. Same was the case with World War II which arose due to second technology revolution.
Evolving Technology can Cause World War III : Alibaba’s Jack Ma
Jack Ma explained that evolving technologies cause more threat to nations instead of job markets. He should his concern that the blooming technology may initiate Third World War.
CEO Alibaba said that leaders should educate people to stop the pain caused by abrupt bloom of automation and artificial intelligence. He said that the development of AI will benefit people by allowing people to travel more and spend less time working in future.
Chairman Alibaba said:
“I think in the next 30 years, people only work four hours a day and maybe four days a week,” Mr Ma said. “My grandfather worked 16 hours a day in the farmland and [thought he was] very busy. We work eight hours, five days a week and think we are very busy.”
The Chinese billionaire told that he do not like humans working as machines. He said that one should make sure that machines do tasks which human cannot do.
The e-commerce giant, Mr Ma is the richest person in Asia and one of the 20 richest in the world.