Jack Ma implies a new global conflict, precisely because of the technological race

Chinese billionaire Jack Ma warned that technological inequality could trigger a new world war.

The founder of Alibaba said that history shows that technological innovation is the main factor behind global conflicts.

"World War I was born because of the first technological revolution." - says Ma at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. "The second technological revolution triggered the Second World War, and now we are about to enter the third technological revolution." - adds Ma.

This is not the first time business leaders have made such warnings. In 2017, Ma made a similar comment, saying that the development of artificial intelligence would most likely be the reason for the Third World War.

Similar darker remarks were made by other technology billionaires - Elon Musk, for example. Tesla's president mentioned last year that the competition among governments to be leaders in the field of artificial intelligence would be the likely cause of a new global conflict.

On the topic of robots and AI, Ma, he emphasized the importance of education, saying that young people should "do things the machines can not do."

Despite his new warning, Jack Ma says he still believes in the potential good that lies in technology. He emphasized climate change as something that technology would change in a way that is in the public interest. The data, for example, could be used by experts for more efficient and rational use of fuels. According to him, technology is something great for people, but added that evil will never be enough.

"I am not a man who falls on technology, but I believe that through them mankind can achieve great deeds." - says Ma. "You have to do good things in this world, good works for the future and believe in young people."

The phrase "do not be bad" is Google's motto applied in their 2000 internal code of business. Most of the references to that phrase in the code have been deleted by him last year, though the motto still appears on the homepage document.

Source: CNBC

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