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Former American President Bill Clinton said on Friday that the rise of artificial intelligence (AI)Andoccupies”, but also has “hope“if it allows you to look”better future“During the Telmex Foundation’s “Mexico Siglo XXI” event, Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim.

In a conversation addressed to young people, Clinton He recalled that during his presidency (1993-2001), he helped expand the Internet, increasing the number of web pages from about 50 to tens of thousands when his term ended.

“Eight years, and the Internet opened up, and the genome project opened up, and now we have artificial intelligence“which becomes part of our lives,” Clinton concluded.

“Yes, I am care and yes, i have hope” he said, noting that he had seen “very good things done by artificial intelligence and its predecessors.”

Nevertheless, Clinton noted that these technological and scientific advances that have occurred in recent times have “opened up enormous horizons good and bad opportunities»

“If you asked me then (2001) and if you asked me now whether I support this or that movement, I would put it through a mental filter and say: Will there be a better future? Will it make us work better? Together, will we all be better off?” he said.

“If yes, then I am for change, if no, then no,” he added during his speech at the annual event. Telmex Foundation Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim..

Clinton recalled that “technological miracles have occurred that give us the opportunity to save the planet from inevitable climate change.”

“We can use it for that or not, and it’s up to us, it depends on how we want.” live your life“, he expressed his opinion.

Credits Zedillo for avoiding peso devaluation

Amid exchange rate volatility caused by judicial reform proposed in the Senate, Clinton He remembered how he helped Mexican Peso was not devalued in 1993, following a political crisis caused by the assassination of a former candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio.

Clinton recalled how the former president of Mexico Ernesto Sedillo (1994-2000) shared with him that there were no resources and that “the United States could fix this by believing in Mexico future, by providing a loan so that he could meet his financial obligations and so that the peso would not collapse.”

The Democratic leader said that despite the fact that he had “worst blowIn the US midterm elections, he decided to believe in Mexicodespite the presence of opposition against.