'Artificial intelligence has lots of potential benefits' - Microsoft president Brad Smith in Lisbon

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Microsoft Corporation President Brad Smith at the Web Summit 2018 in Lisbon, Portugal Source: AAP Image/ Pedro Fiúza/NurPhoto/Sipa USA

Microsoft president Brad Smith told SBS Portuguese in Lisbon the firm wants to take artificial intelligence and “help every business, every government to do what they do but and do it better.”


According to Smith, AI has lots of potential benefits, “it will improve the yields for farmers, it will improve the productivity for businesses, it will create new jobs, it will create whole new parts for the economy, and it will have challenges as well, it will affect other people’s jobs.”

Brad Smith spoke at the Web Summit 2018, held in Lisbon, Portugal. 

Interviewed by Francisco Sena Santos, SBS Portuguese correspondent in Lisbon.

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