Microsoft's CEO Satya Nadella said on Tuesday that engineers, entrepreneurs, big companies, and regulators need to be "mindful" in avoiding that AI tools are used to deepen social divisions or create tensions at the global political poles.
During his conversation with the founder of the World Economic Forum Klaus Schwab in Davos, Nadella stressed that the remarkable characteristic of AI breakthroughs is that they can expand to many fields and countries and serve everyone with not a huge amount of investment. He noted that people's lives could be impacted in education, medicine, and civil rights spheres and "it's absolutely economically feasible, even with just the government spending."
"I feel that we've never had a broad general-purpose technology that diffused to all corners of the globe and created abundance equally. That's the dream. What would the world look like if we were able to solve global problems as one community? We have a shot at it," he added.
