- Google CEO Sundar Pichai expressed concern about the rapid advances in artificial intelligence and its impact on society.
- Pichai warned that society is not prepared for the consequences of AI and that regulations and standards must be aligned with human values.
- He also mentioned that while there is concern, there is also optimism as there is more early awareness of AI challenges compared to past technologies.
The great advances in artificial intelligence developments are the topic of conversation in all areas related to technology.
One of the industry notables who hadn’t commented on the matter was Google CEO Sundar Pichai.
He did it this Sunday in an interview with “60 Minutes”, from the American chain CBS. And his opinion has generated concern.
Puchai said, in a serious tone, that society is not prepared for the rapid advances of AI, that artificial intelligence “cannot be a matter of a company” and that the consequences will have an impact on “all products from all companies”.
Pichai also said that he had been “speechless” seeing some of the AI advances and that he felt that some of the capabilities he saw were “disturbing”.
“We need to adapt as a society”, Pichai said, adding that the jobs that will be most disrupted are “knowledge” jobs, including writers, accountants, architects and, ironically, software engineers.
Warning of the potential consequences of artificial intelligence, Pichai said that the scale of the problem of misinformation and fake news and images will be “much greater” and that this “could cause a lot of damage.”
The CEO of Google and AI
As for how the world is going to adapt, Pichai said society needs to do it quickly with regulations, with laws to punish abuse, and with treaties between nations to make AI safe for everyone. The norms must align “with human values”.
“It is not for a company to decide on this,” Pichai said. “That’s why I think AI development should include not only engineers, but also social scientists, ethicists, and philosophers.”
When asked if society is ready for technologies like the ones seen in recent weeks, Pichai replied: “On the one hand, I think not, because there is a mismatch between the pace at which technology evolves and that of the institutions, there is a mismatch.”
However, he said he was optimistic because, compared to other technologies that have emerged in the past, this time “there are a lot of people who are worrying from the beginning.”
Pichai said there is “a black box” with chatbots, where sometimes “you don’t understand” why or how some responses come up. The journalist, concerned, asked: “You don’t understand how it works, and yet they’ve released it into society?”
“I also don’t think we fully understand how the human mind works,” Pichai replied.
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