Google CEO Sundar Pichai compares AI to local weather change at APEC CEO Summit

Google CEO Sundar Pichai mentioned synthetic intelligence is like local weather change in that it’s going to proliferate worldwide, and that folks throughout the globe share a accountability 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 the best way 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 nations and so it’s naturally the form of know-how that — I don’t assume there’s any unilateral security available.”

Ought to AI might go unsuitable in a single nation, he mentioned, it might influence different nations, making it tough to control regionally.

“In some methods, it’s like local weather change and the planet,” Pichai mentioned. “All of us share a planet. I believe that’s true for AI.” That’s why “it’s a must to begin constructing the frameworks globally,” he added.

Pichai mentioned nations have a shared accountability to construct international frameworks — one thing he’s 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 start out a dialogue across the subject of AI.

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