Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks at a panel on the CEO Summit of the Americas hosted by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on June 09, 2022 in Los Angeles, California.
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai mentioned synthetic intelligence is like local weather change in that it’s going to proliferate worldwide, and that individuals throughout the globe share a duty to create guardrails.
On the Asia-Pacific Financial Cooperation (APEC) CEO summit in San Francisco on Thursday, Pichai was requested by Bloomberg’s Emily Chang tips on how to get to a world consensus on “good AI regulation.”
Pichai mentioned AI “will proliferate” and that “AI advances will get out to all of the international locations and so it is naturally the sort of expertise that — I do not suppose there’s any unilateral security available.”
Ought to AI might go incorrect in a single nation, he mentioned, it might impression different international locations, making it tough to manage regionally.
“In some methods, it is like local weather change and the planet,” Pichai mentioned. “All of us share a planet. I believe that is true for AI.” That is why “you must begin constructing the frameworks globally,” he added.
Pichai mentioned international locations have a shared duty to construct world frameworks — one thing he is warned about in current months. He mentioned he sees some indicators of progress for discussions, together with on the G7 Summit in Japan earlier this yr. There was additionally yesterday’s settlement between President Joe Biden and Chinese language President Xi Jinping, who vowed to begin a dialogue across the matter of AI.
