Google CEO Warns Against Rush to Deploy AI Without Oversight
Alphabet Inc. and Google Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai said in an interview broadcast Sunday that the push to adopt artificial intelligence technology must be well-regulated to avoid potential harmful effects.
Asked in a 60 Minutes interview about what keeps him up at night with regard to AI, Pichai said “The urgency to work and deploy it in a beneficial way, but at the same time it can be very harmful if deployed wrongly.”
Mountain View, California-based Google has been among the leaders in developing and implementing AI across its services. Software like Google Lens and Google Photos rely on the company's image-recognition systems, while its Google Assistant benefits from natural language processing research that Google has been doing for years. Still, its pace of deploying the technology has been deliberately measured and circumspect, whereas OpenAI's ChatGPT has opened up a race to move forward with AI tools at a much faster clip.
“We don't have all the answers there yet, and the technology is moving fast,” Pichai said. “So does that keep me up at night? Absolutely.”
Google is now playing catch-up in looking to infuse its products with generative AI — software that can create text, images, music or even video based on user prompts. ChatGPT and another OpenAI product, Dall-E, showed the technology's potential, and countless businesses from Silicon Valley to China's internet leaders are now getting involved in presenting their own offerings. Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt urged global tech companies to come together and develop standards and appropriate guardrails, warning that any slowdown in development would “simply benefit China.”
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