What concerns Michael Dell the most about A.I.

Dell Technologies Chairman & CEO Michael Dell joins ‘Influencers with Andy Serwer’ to discuss the future of the technology sector.

Video transcript

INTERVIEWER: In the book you touch on current excitement over 5G and AI, though you note that their implementation must be, quote, "humane," what issue concerns you the most about the rise of AI?

MICHAEL DELL: You know, I think the reskilling and retraining and how you create opportunity for everyone. I mean, if you think about this from an economic perspective, we have a lot of people that are not participating in the economy, and yet we have these shortages for skills that are huge and a lot of retraining required. 100 years ago, most people could do pretty much every job that there was. Who can program robots and design spaceships and do brain surgery, come up with the algorithms and that sort of thing, fewer and fewer people.

And so I think creating more skills because the pace of change is only going to accelerate is something that I'm certainly concerned about, lots of people are concerned about it, I think for good reason. The pace of change is not going to slow down. You know, technology doesn't have an opinion on these things. It doesn't wake up in the morning, and say, OK, let's wait until everybody has caught up, it just marches on.