2023-05-28 22:52:52
On Sunday, Microsoft President Brad Smith called on the US government to act quickly to regulate artificial intelligence. It holds greater potential for the benefit of humanity than any other invention before it.
Smith said – in an interview on CBS – that “the uses of artificial intelligence are widespread in almost every field, in medicine, drug discovery, disease diagnosis, and to provide resources for institutions, such as the Red Cross, in disasters by finding those affected under collapsed buildings.”
He added that artificial intelligence is not as “mysterious” as many think, explaining that it is getting stronger.
He explained, “If you have the famous Roomba cleaning robot at home, it knows its way inside your kitchen using artificial intelligence by determining what it collides with and how to get around it.”
Regarding concerns regarding the power of artificial intelligence, Smith said that any technology that exists today would have seemed dangerous to people who lived before it; Therefore, there must be a security guarantee.
He added that functional disruptions due to artificial intelligence will occur over a period of years, not months: “For most of us, the way we work will change, and we will need to develop and acquire a set of new skills.”
To prevent the spread of fake news, such as the incident with images of an explosion near the Pentagon, Smith stressed the need to develop a watermark system, or “use the power of artificial intelligence to detect fake content.”
He explained the technology, saying, “We will include what we call metadata, and it is part of the files that if it is removed, we can detect that it is not original, and if there is a modified version, we can track it, a technology similar to the fingerprint of something, and then we can search for that fingerprint online.”
Smith said a new path must be found to balance regulation of deepfakes, misleading ads, and freedom of expression.
The relationship of artificial intelligence to elections
With the US presidential election year approaching and the continuing threat of foreign cyber influence operations, Smith stressed the need for collaboration between the technology sector and governments on an international initiative.
Smith is backing a new government agency to regulate AI systems.
“This agency will contribute not only to developing artificial intelligence models safely, but also to storing the data of these models in major data centers so that they can be protected from cybersecurity, physical security and national security threats,” Smith said.
Smith does not agree with the opinion of the famous American billionaire Elon Musk and founder of “Apple” Steve Wozniak that stopping for six months the development of artificial intelligence systems more powerful than “Chat GPT 4” is the solution to the current dilemma.
“Instead of slowing down the pace of technology, which I think is very complex, and I don’t think China will make breakthroughs in that period, let’s use six months to move faster,” Smith said.
Smith proposed an executive order that would force the government itself to buy AI services only from companies that implement AI security protocols.
“The world is moving forward,” Smith said. “Let’s make sure the United States at least catches up with the rest of the world.”
(Rameshah Marouf – CNN)
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