- Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak shared his ideas about artificial intelligence
- He says he is ‘not a fan’ of people like ChatGPT and Claude
- His comments come as Apple continues to work on AI tools
Like other major tech companies, Apple is going all-in with its artificial intelligence (AI) efforts. But if the company’s co-founder Steve Wozniak was still involved, things could look very different.
In an interview on The Claman Countdown on Fox Business, Wozniak revealed that he is “not a fan” of AI systems for various reasons. That stands in stark contrast to the stance of Apple CEO Tim Cook, who has described AI as something that is “so profound and can be so positive.”
For Wozniak, however, the AI has too many flaws for his liking. For example, Wozniak said he can ask an AI tool what the difference is between two objects and it will give him a long, detailed answer. But if you ask a human, he noted, you may be treated to a story rather than mere facts.
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“I want to know that a human like myself thinks, knows what I can feel and understands emotions,” he added.
And it’s not just the lack of emotional depth that sets Wozniak apart from the AI — it’s the unreliability. Wozniak lamented that after testing various Large Language Model (LLM) tools, he sometimes struggles to get a straight answer out of an AI. “I want reliable content like that every time,” he said. “I’m not a fan of artificial intelligence.”
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‘Make ourselves less relevant’
Wozniak’s comments come at a tough time for Apple’s AI efforts. The company seemed to be caught flat-footed by the emergence of ChatGPT in late 2022, and it wasn’t until the summer of 2024 that Apple unveiled its own AI system called Apple Intelligence. Unfortunately, this has hit roadblock after roadblock, and several of the flagship features the company announced have yet to see the light of day two years later.
This is not the first time that Wozniak has discussed AI. As far back as 2011, he weighed in on the matter, warning in a speech that “Every time we invent a computer to do something else, it does our work for us and makes us less relevant.” In 2018, however, he was apparently less concerned, arguing that “Sometimes what we call AI is just the latest thing that computers can do right now … If you go back in time, machines have always made humans more powerful.”
Of course, both of these comments came before the advent of AI-powered chatbots like ChatGPT and Google Gemini. And now that he’s experienced such tools, it sure looks like he’s not a big fan. But with Apple continuing to push ahead with its own AI systems, it looks like Wozniak will remain on edge with the company he co-founded 50 years ago.
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