Mr. Wozniak told ABC News that an MRI confirmed he had a stroke while attending the World Business Forum in Mexico City.

The septuagenarian was taken to the hospital after passing out at the conference, according to the CNN websitegogogogogogogogogo.

The BBC has contacted representatives of Mr. Wozniak for comments.

Better known in the technology world as Woz, Mr. Wozniak is a Silicon Valley veteran who co-founded Apple with Steve Jobs in 1976 and invented the first Apple computer.

Apple went on to become the most valuable company in the world.

The computing pioneer signed a letter in March alongside Elon Musk calling for a pause in the development of the most powerful artificial intelligence (AI) models.

AI could make scams harder to spot - Wozniak

He called for the regulation of AI when he spoke to the BBC in May 2023, fearing that the technology would be harnessed by "bad actors."

He said: "AI is so intelligent it's open to the bad players, the ones that want to trick you about who they are."

But he sounded a note of skepticism that regulators would get it right: "I think the forces that drive for money usually win out, which is sort of sad."