Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, in his address at the Copernican World Congress, spoke about modern technologies, including the internet, artificial intelligence and cloning, and the paradoxes related to them.

“The invention of the internet was supposed to connect us into a single global village, but it has also become the leaven of many problems and the beginning of new isolation and enslavement on a scale we have not known before, if it ends up in the hands of dictators, autocrats, which is what happens”, assessed the Prime Minister.

Mateusz Morawiecki talked in the lobbies of the Congress with Nobel laureates invited to Toruń about the origins of the world and cosmic phenomena, as well as the era of artificial intelligence that is soon to come. 

“The motto of the Enlightenment was ‘sapere aude’ – ‘have the courage to be wise’. So, we must ask ourselves whether the price for the benefits of artificial intelligence is to abandon wisdom. Just as we need to ask whether, for the benefits of cloning capability, the price is not, or will not be, giving up humanity or a part of it”, said the head of government.

The Prime Minister also spoke of science, which in the free world serves to make people’s lives safer, better, and more dignified, and of the hope that advances in knowledge will help us to progress and make us humble before the world. 

“Because the combination of the two great qualities that push human beings forward, humility and the desire to seek truth and new horizons, are the greatest of virtues that help us build a better world”, concluded Mateusz Morawiecki.