Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, the computer software
company, says artificial intelligence (AI) needs regulations to achieve its
full potentials.
Gates spoke after attending a United States senate ‘AI
Insight Forum’, held on Wednesday and was attended by over 20 tech titans.
Some of the attendees included Elon Musk, owner of X
(formerly Twitter), Google’s Sundar Pichai, Mark Zuckerberg of Meta, and Sam
Altman from OpenAI.
Gates raised concerns about AI risks and advocated for the
government and private sector to work together to minimise them.
“The potential of AI
is limitless — but we will only realize that potential if government, the
private sector, and civil society work together to maximize the technology’s
benefits and minimize its risks,” the co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation tweeted on Thursday.
Earlier in July, the tech billionaire highlighted the risks
of AI on his blog but said they were manageable.
“This is not the first time a major innovation has
introduced new threats that had to be controlled. We’ve done it before,” he had
said.
“Whether it was the
introduction of cars or the rise of personal computers and the Internet, people
have managed through other transformative moments and, despite a lot of
turbulence, come out better off in the end.
“Soon after the first automobiles were on the road, there
was the first car crash. But we didn’t ban cars—we adopted speed limits, safety
standards, licensing requirements, drunk-driving laws, and other rules of the
road.”
Gates had also asked the government to build up expertise in
artificial intelligence so they could make informed laws and regulations that
respond to this new technology.
He urged private-sector AI companies to pursue their work
safely and responsibly.
“That includes
protecting people’s privacy, making sure their AI models reflect basic human
values, minimizing bias, spreading the benefits to as many people as possible,
and preventing the technology from being used by criminals or terrorists,”
Gates had noted.
In May, Geoffrey Hinton, a scientist regarded as the
godfather of AI, quit his job at Google over fears of growing dangers from
innovations in the field.
Hinton described the situation as a nightmare and said he
regretted his work.
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