Chinese billionaire Jackie Ma, known as the founder of the Alibaba shopping site, warned everyone at the World Economic Forum last Wednesday (23) that technological advances may be what is expected to cause an upcoming World War.

According to the billionaire, World War I was caused by the first technological revolution, and another Great War was caused by the second technological revolution. Ma concludes that, as we are currently undergoing a third AI-led technological revolution, it is to be expected that we are also close to a Third World War.

Similar warnings have been made by another technology mogul – the ever controversial Elon Musk, who last year warned that competition among countries to develop increasingly capable AIs should be the cause of a Third World War.

Still talking about AIs, Ma punctuated the importance of education, arguing that children should be taught to learn skills that can not be replaced by a machine if they want to have a promising career in the future.


But despite the warnings, Ma is still optimistic about the role of technology for good, and believes that technological advances can provide solutions to serious problems that affect us, such as global warming.

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