Female values can help us tackle AI: Schwab
dubai — In an era that will soon be dominated by Artificial Intelligence (AI), humans must hold on to their values and empathy and integrate female values to the system, the World Economic Forum (WEF) founder said.
During his opening address ‘Key Global challenges 2018,’ Klaus Schwab, WEF founder & executive chairman, stressed on the responsibility of each government and company to “rescale and upscale 10 million people by 2020.”
“It is estimated that AI will take over 40 per cent of jobs, so we have to rescale people today,” said Schwab, at his opening address at the summit. He emphasised that gender disparity must be addressed and female values must be integrated into the management of countries and business entities.
“It isn’t a quantitative question but a qualitative one… it means accepting women on the same level as men.” He added that AI’s unprecedented growth and evolution should make humans focus on their empathy and emotions that will make them stand out from machines and create a change of mindset where female values are more integrated into the system.
Schwab warned of a social crisis “characterised by huge income gaps” that sees distribution of what is considered “unfair.”
“We cheat the next generation out of social welfare, we underfinance infrastructure, we have a yearly gap of $800 billion. If we look at the education system, it is suited for the end of 19th and 20th centuries but doesn’t suffice for 21st century requirements.”
He warned of the income disparity and urged for a global income that’s more inclusive. “We have to progress to situation where no one is left behind.”
Schwab further noted that one of the biggest risks the world is facing in 2018 is the sociopolitical one that made the world multipolar during the past few years. “We don’t have the same values, we only possibly have shared interests,” said Schwab, noting that the multi-conceptual world will bring in more conflicts.