The head of Apple Inc, Tim Cook, said that he is not worried about artificial intelligence, but people who think like machines, while new technologies can change the world for the better.
“A lot has been said about the potential negative aspects of artificial intelligence. I'm not worried about machines thinking like humans, I'm worried about people thinking like machines. We must work together to bring technology to humanity,”he said at the opening ceremony of the Fourth World Internet Conference.
The head of Apple expressed confidence that technology can change the world for the better. “Technologies can change the world for the better if they are embedded in humanity. We believe that artificial intelligence can expand human capabilities and help make a breakthrough that will transform our lives in education, in access to health care and in countless other areas,”he said.
The Apple chief added that the future may be better not because of technology per se, but because of how humanity will use it.
The World Internet Conference opened on Sunday in Wuzheng, China, which will run until December 5. It is held under the motto "Developing a digital economy for openness and sharing of benefits - building a community of shared destiny in cyberspace."
The main topics of the conference will be such issues as artificial intelligence, the fight against poverty through the Internet, Internet communication and social responsibility in the face of new challenges, the global digital economy, the norms of cyberspace, as well as international cooperation in countering the use of cyberspace for committing crimes and terrorist acts. …
This year, more than 1.5 thousand participants from 80 countries of the world take part in the conference, including the head of Alibaba Jack Ma, the head of Apple Corporation Tim Cook, one of the fathers of the Internet Robert Elliot Kahn, the founder and head of Kaspersky Lab Eugene Kaspersky and others.