Microsoft President Brad Smith on Thursday spoke about the benefits of regulating artificial intelligence and how US software giants can help, echoing a message he delivered to an audience in Brussels last month in Washington.
Smith, along with Twitter owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, is regulating AI, a technology that has generated a lot of public interest with the advent of Microsoft-backed OpenAI’s ChatGPT. It was trying to appeal to regulators and legislators for
Big tech companies have shared their suggestions on how best to regulate AI, which could help mitigate some of the impact such rules would have on their businesses.
The European Union is working out the details of a regulation known as the AI Law. This is the first rule in the world that could become a benchmark for other countries.
“Our aim is to provide constructive contributions to inform future work,” Smith said in a blog post. He then repeated his own message at a conference in Brussels.
He said Microsoft’s five-point blueprint for governing AI, including a government-led AI safety framework, safety brakes on AI systems controlling critical infrastructure, and ensuring academic access to AI, is part of EU legislation. said to be consistent with
Smith also called on the EU, US, G7 countries, India and Indonesia to cooperate on AI governance in line with shared values and principles.
