Microsoft executive calls for faster AI regulation
Summary
According to CNN Business report, Brad Smith, the President and Vice Chair of Microsoft, emphasized the need for the government to work faster to regulate AI, considering its immense potential to benefit humanity than any other invention preceding it. In a US news channel programme on Sunday, Smith said uses of artificial intelligence (AI) are almost "ubiquitous" in medicine and drug discovery and diagnosing diseases, "in scrambling the resources of, say, the Red Cross or others in a disaster to find those who are most vulnerable where buildings have collapsed." As per the CNN Business report, regarding concerns about AIs power, Smith said any technology that exists today looked dangerous to people who lived before it. To prevent instances like the fake photo of the explosion near the Pentagon, Smith said there needs to be a watermark system, or "use the power of AI to detect when that happens," according to CNN Business. With a US presidential election year approaching and the ongoing threat of foreign cyber influence operations, Smith said the tech sector needs to come together with governments in an international initiative.
