MOSCOW, 14 March (BelTA) – The development of artificial intelligence (AI) should not be rushed. Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko made the relevant statement in his speech in the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on 14 March during an official visit to the Russian Federation, BelTA has learned.
Speaking about the development of information technologies and artificial intelligence, which everyone talks about now, Aleksandr Lukashenko expressed an opinion by saying that certainly, the matter should be explored but it is not a good idea to get too far ahead of ourselves. “Getting ahead so far that the society will not understand and will not accept these steps,” he explained.
Aleksandr Lukashenko said that even highly trained foreign specialists, who he has talked to and who focus on artificial intelligence, do not know what the development of this technology may bring about. “They don’t have answers to these questions. I wondered whether we will no longer be needed at some point. ‘We don’t know’. I said then: why are we doing it? Why are you leading us to it? They responded by saying it is profitable. That’s why they do it,” the head of state shared details of private meetings.
“Yes, it is necessary to stay half a step, a step ahead. Our common history teaches us that,” the president remarked. “Don’t take me for a retrograde. We shouldn’t make things that people will not only need, that people will even fail to comprehend today, tomorrow, and maybe the day after today. This is why it is necessary to develop artificial intelligence from my point of view. And it is necessary to do what we need today and tomorrow. We shouldn’t scare people with this artificial intelligence. Because more than 90% of the general public have heard about it but don’t understand what it is.”
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