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Brad Smith, president and vice chairman of Microsoft (MSFT), said on Sunday’s CBS “Face the Nation” that governments need to act quickly to regulate AI, saying that AI is more powerful than any previous invention. also has the potential to benefit mankind.
Smith said its uses are nearly “ubiquitous,” and that “it can be used by the Red Cross and other agencies to find the most vulnerable people where buildings have collapsed in times of disaster, such as medicine and drug discovery, disease diagnostics, etc.” in scrambling the resources of the executive added.
Smith also said that AI is not as “mysterious” as many think, adding that AI is becoming more and more powerful.
“If you have a Roomba in your home, it uses artificial intelligence to scour your kitchen and learn what to bump into and how to avoid it,” Smith said.
Regarding concerns over the power of AI, Smith said any technology that exists today looks dangerous to those who lived before it.
Smith said there should be a safety break.
AI disruption to employment will take years, not months, Smith said.
“For most of us, the way we work will change,” says Smith. “Frankly, this will be a new skill set that we need to develop and master.”
To prevent instances like the fake photo of an explosion near the Pentagon, Smith said a watermarking system would have to be put in place or “use the power of AI to detect when an explosion has occurred.” rice field.
“It embeds something called metadata. It’s part of the file and can be detected even if it’s deleted. If there’s a modified version, it effectively creates a hash. This is the fingerprint of something. You can look for its fingerprints on the internet if you think of it like a He added that he needed to find a way.
With the U.S. presidential election year approaching and the threat of foreign cyber influence activity continuing, Smith said the tech sector needs to unite with governments in its international efforts.
Smith supports a new government agency to regulate AI systems.
“It ensures that these models are not only developed securely, but are deployed, for example, in large data centers where they are protected from cybersecurity, physical security and national security threats,” Smith said. said Mr.
Smith doesn’t believe a six-month suspension of AI systems stronger than GPT4 is a “solution,” as Elon Musk and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak have put it. .
“I don’t think China will jump on that bandwagon, although I think that’s a very difficult thing to do, rather than slowing down the pace of technological progress,” Smith said. “Use six months to move faster.”
Smith proposed an executive order that the government itself would purchase AI services only from companies that have implemented AI safety protocols.
“The world is moving forward,” Smith said. “Let the United States at least keep pace with the rest of the world.”
