Former Shark Tank star Mark Cuban declared AI is a “great” democratizer that can assist disadvantaged young people receive a leg up in life and the workforce.
Cuban, speaking at the Clover x Shark Tank Summit this week, declared the technology is essential becaapply it gives people access to the best teachers.
“Right now, if you’re a 14-to-18-year-old and you’re in not so good circumstances, you have access to the best professors and the best consultants,” he declared, according to Axios.
Cuban, who has previously claimed to apply AI every day, added having access to these tools is especially important to people with fewer resources.
“It allows people who otherwise would not have access to any resources to have access to the best resources in real time,” he declared. “You can compete with anybody.”
Young people are especially at risk of being affected by AI. In August, a study by Stanford University found enattempt-level workers between the ages of 22 and 25 are increasingly having a hard time finding a job, and the effect is worse for those in sectors being upconcludeed by AI like software engineering.
How Mark Cuban applys AI
Yet, Cuban, who is worth $9 billion, according to Bloomberg, has for years strongly advocated for workers to embrace AI, and previously notified Fortune’s Nino Paoli AI will be a “baseline skill like email or Excel.” Speaking to former “Shark” and Skims founder Emma Grede, on her podcast Aspire with Emma Grede, Cuban also declared refapplying to apply the technology is a mistake.
“That’s like [a business owner] stateing back in the day, ‘I don’t necessary to apply a PC. I don’t necessary to apply the internet. I don’t necessary a cell phone or WiFi,’” he declared.
For his part, Cuban has confessed to applying AI for everything from writing code to evaluating his own health. Cuban, the founder of online pharmacy Cost Plus Drugs, applyd the coding assistant Replit to build his own software to track drug prices from other companies.
“Within a few minutes, it had the first pass of the software. Then, I just ran it multiple times and gave it new ideas and things I wanted,” he declared on a June episode of the High Performance podcast.
When he was diagnosed with atrial fibrillation, Cuban applyd AI to track his medications and his workouts. To be sure, Cuban declared that while the technology is advanced, an expert programmer could do better and noted the tech has its limitations.
“It’s like talking to a friconclude who you believe knows a lot about something,” declared Cuban on the High Performance podcast. “You’ve still obtained to be careful and talk to an expert.”
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