Chennai, July 17 -- Zanzibar President Dr. Hussein Ali Mwinyi on Friday said Artificial intelligence, robotics, biotechnology and quantum technologies are changing the way humanity lives, learns and works. Yet history reminds that technology alone has never guaranteed progress.
In his address at the 63rd Convocation of IIT-Madras at its campus here, he said every great innovation presents humanity with a choice. It can deepen inequality or expand opportunity. It can divide communities or unite them. That choice belongs not to technology itself,but to those who create it.
"Every generation inherits the world as it is. Yours has the extraordinary opportunity--and responsibility--to shape the world as it oughtto be. You graduate at a definin...