{"id":26334,"date":"2026-05-04T06:47:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T06:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/26334\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T06:47:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T06:47:14","slug":"i-dont-believe-well-hit-agi-steve-wozniak-explains-his-ai-skepticism-and-why-human-heart-and-ingenuity-is-the-only-key-to-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/26334\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I don\u2019t believe we\u2019ll hit AGI\u2019 \u2014 Steve Wozniak explains his AI skepticism, and why human heart and ingenuity is the only key to success"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Whether it’s rocket car launches, the reveal of the most gaudy phones you\u2019ve ever seen<\/a>, or a fingerprint-scanning smart fridge<\/a> debut, Dreame Next<\/a> was full of surprises \u2014 but the most exciting for me was easily the appearance of Steve Wozniak. It turns out he\u2019s among the few people who adore the iPhone Air.<\/p>\n

Starting with his thoughts on the latest Apple phones, Wozniak mentioned also loving his iPhone 17 Pro Max \u2014 though he calls the orange color model the Trump phone, given it shares the US president\u2019s complexion \u2014 but for him, as he waved the iPhone Air<\/a> he pulled from his jacket pocket to the crowd, the improbably slim device wins out.<\/p>\n

Because \u201cit invokes an emotion\u201d with its unique aesthetics that feel infused with human passion.<\/p>\n

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Credit: Lance Ulanoff \/ Future<\/p>\n

For Wozniak, this human element is what matters most: \u201cHuman beings are more important than the technology.\u201d<\/p>\n

And the only way for a company to focus on this human element over all else, in Wozniak\u2019s mind, is if engineers \u2014 the people who possess the know-how and passion to conjure designs that people want to use, and to love \u2014 are leading the charge at the highest levels.<\/p>\n

While he didn\u2019t directly mention Apple\u2019s current situation beyond the iPhone Air endorsement, I couldn\u2019t help but feel his constant references to the importance of engineers in leadership positions was an endorsement of the incoming Apple CEO, John Ternus<\/a>.<\/p>\n

An instrumental figure in Apple\u2019s hardware for the past couple of decades, even heading up its hardware engineering division, Ternus could bring the engineer\u2019s ability to \u201clead design with their hearts\u201d that Wozniak lauded.<\/p>\n

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Credit: Dreame<\/p>\n

“It doesn\u2019t have a heart\u201d<\/p>\n

As you might expect, the Apple co-founder was therefore less than ecstatic about AI, calling his relationship with the tech \u201ca complicated one.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery time computer technology increases it allows the human user to do more than they did before,\u201d he discussed, \u201cIt can give me some good ideas, but I do not like the mistakes it makes because it\u2019s too easy to believe the fake stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n

AI talks with such confidence that its errors are sometimes easy to ignore, and it also lacks the human flair that only a real emotional person can deliver \u2014 \u201cAI can do valuable things, but it doesn\u2019t have a heart.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Credit: Dreame<\/p>\n

Wozniak admitted that AGI \u2014 artificial general intelligence that\u2019s as smart as a human \u2014 could theoretically have that heart and emotion, but as he put it: \u201cI don\u2019t believe we\u2019ll hit AGI.\u201d<\/p>\n

He explained that when he went back to college to finally get a degree after dropping out a decade earlier we majored in psychology. He worked with people attempting to model the human brain and saw how they struggled to understand even small sections of it. \u201cEngineers worked out the only way to build a human brain takes nine months\u201d \u2014 a line the hosts didn\u2019t immediately clock was a gag.<\/p>\n

In case he\u2019s wrong about AGI, and the technology overthrows us as the dominant force on the planet and takes us on as pets, Wozniak also jokingly said he\u2019s started to feed his dogs fillet steaks \u2014 \u201cThat\u2019s how I\u2019d want to be treated,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The death of PCs? Not likely\"Apple<\/p>\n

Credit: Apple<\/p>\n

Looking ahead to what is next, if it isn\u2019t AGI, Steve Wozniak admitted that it\u2019s impossible to be certain, but he expects the next decade to hold more of the same \u2014 but better.<\/p>\n

That means better phones, better computers, better tech, but not one product cannibalizing another \u2014 pushing back on the Dreame Next host\u2019s ponderings that smartphones will finally replace PCs, saying, \u201cI don\u2019t really believe that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLook at cars, once we hit a good plateau it can kinda stay the same for a very long time,\u201d he said. Wozniak added that phones and PCs have plateaued in their respective niches, and he doesn’t expect one to start cannibalizing the other, especially because phones get better, so do PCs at an equal rate.<\/p>\n

That doesn\u2019t mean we should get complacent, though. \u201cYou\u2019ve got to believe you can improve the technology of the day,\u201d that\u2019s how Apple got started and keeps growing, \u201cLook at what you have got today. How can you make it better? Improve it, improve it, keep taking steps towards the eventual great future.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6744,319,3013,17601,17600,17602,11073],"class_list":{"0":"post-26334","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-agi","8":"tag-agi","9":"tag-apple","10":"tag-artificial-general-intelligence","11":"tag-human-brain","12":"tag-human-element","13":"tag-human-passion","14":"tag-steve-wozniak"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}