Google CEO Warns Against AI
“It can be very harmful.”
“AI can be very harmful if deployed wrongly,” Alphabet Inc. and Google Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai said in a CBS 60 Minutes interview that caused a stir. Pichai underlined “the urgency to work and deploy it,” but at the same time, we have to be careful, and the matter needs strong regulation.
The California tech giant develops and implements AI across its services.
“Software like Google Lens and Google Photos rely on the company’s image-recognition systems. At the same time, its Google Assistant benefits from natural language processing research that Google has been doing for years. Still, its technology deployment pace has been deliberately measured and circumspect.
“In contrast, OpenAI’s ChatGPT has unlocked a race to move forward with AI tools at a much faster clip”, writes Julia Love in Bloomberg. Pichai invites the tech world to be more cautious. “Does that keep me up at night? Absolutely,” Pichai said in the 60 Minutes interview.
Among the risks of generative AI that Pichai highlighted are so-called “deepfake videos,” in which individuals can be portrayed uttering remarks they did not make. Such pitfalls illustrate the need for regulation, Pichai said.
“There have to be consequences for creating deepfake videos which cause harm to society,” he said. “You don’t want to put out a powerful tech like this because it gives society no time to adapt.”
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“It can be very harmful.”
“AI can be very harmful if deployed wrongly,” Alphabet Inc. and Google Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai said in a CBS 60 Minutes interview that caused a stir. Pichai underlined “the urgency to work and deploy it,” but at the same time, we have to be careful, and the matter needs strong regulation.
The California tech giant develops and implements AI across its services.
“Software like Google Lens and Google Photos rely on the company’s image-recognition systems. At the same time, its Google Assistant benefits from natural language processing research that Google has been doing for years. Still, its technology deployment pace has been deliberately measured and circumspect.
“In contrast, OpenAI’s ChatGPT has unlocked a race to move forward with AI tools at a much faster clip”, writes Julia Love in Bloomberg. Pichai invites the tech world to be more cautious. “Does that keep me up at night? Absolutely,” Pichai said in the 60 Minutes interview.
Among the risks of generative AI that Pichai highlighted are so-called “deepfake videos,” in which individuals can be portrayed uttering remarks they did not make. Such pitfalls illustrate the need for regulation, Pichai said.
“There have to be consequences for creating deepfake videos which cause harm to society,” he said. “You don’t want to put out a powerful tech like this because it gives society no time to adapt.”
