Billionaires Jack Ma and Elon Musk disagree over the biggest threat to humanity

They are completely opposed to the future. While Alibaba's founder is optimistic, Jack Ma, Elon Musk, space contractor and Tesla mogul, believes that humanity can end. These are his reasons.

The magnates behind Alibaba and Tesla do not agree on the future.

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The second richest man in ChinaHe said he was "rather optimistic" about the effects of artificial intelligence on humans and added that there was nothing to be afraid of.

"I'm not sure, I do not think it's going to be like that," he replied.
Elon Musk, saying that technology is growing faster than our ability to understand it.

The entrepreneurs, who are among the most influential leaders in the technology and business sector, expressed their views at an event organized last week in
World Conference on Artificial Intelligence (WAIC), Shanghai.

Work three days a week?

Ma, who sparked controversy by supporting the idea that people work from nine in the morning to nine in the evening and six days a week (a system called 996), explained that with the development technology, employees would work in the future much less.

"I think people should work three days a week and four hours a day," said the billionaire, "because with artificial intelligence, people will have more time to enjoy it." I do not think that we need a lot of jobs. "

"The jobs we need are the ones that make people happier, do not worry, we will have jobs."

Ma cited the Industrial Revolution and Electricity to illustrate how advances in technology have led to a better balance between work and home life.

In addition, the businessman said that people would still live many years. "In the era of artificial intelligence, people can live 120 years (…). We need artificial intelligence for robots to take care of the elderly."

Mbad unemployment

On the contrary, Musk stressed that mbad unemployment is a real concern.

"The artificial intelligence will make the work a little useless."

"The last job that will likely remain will be to develop artificial intelligence.The artificial intelligence will eventually encode your own software."

"The biggest problem the world will have in 20 years is the fall of its population," said Musk.

The billionaire added that there was a risk that humanity will end up and that it will finally be perceived as a point of preparation at the beginning of a higher life.

"You could think of humanity as the biological engine of digital super-intelligence."

To avoid this fate, he said we needed to find a way to connect our brains to computers, which he would try to do through one of his latest startups.

"Do not worry about the machines," said Ma. "A computer is a computer, a computer is a toy."

"A computer can be smart, but humans are smarter," he added, before which Musk replied, "Absolutely not."

With what are you in agreement?

In this, fears about overpopulation of the planet are wrong.

"The biggest problem the world will face in 20 years will be the decline of the population," said Musk. This prediction has received the full support of Ma.

"The speed at which the population will decrease will increase," he added.

However, he added that
the use of artificial intelligence to extend the life of several years can be part of the solution.

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