Google CEO Sundar Pichai described artificial ielligence as the most transformative technology in history at the UN Future Summit on Saturday and announced the creation of a new fund for AI education and training around the world.
According to the Google news site, Pichai poied to four broad opportunities for artificial ielligence and sustainable developme: helping people access information in their own language, providing warnings and tracking climate disasters, accelerating scieific discoveries, and boosting economic progress.
Pichai acknowledged that artificial ielligence also has risks:
“As with any emerging technology, artificial ielligence will have limitations. Also, risks of misuse and abuse, such as deepfaking, threaten this technology. In addition, artificial ielligence raises new complications; For example, its impact on the future of work. Due to these reasons, we believe that artificial ielligence should be developed, implemeed and used responsibly from the very beginning.
He coinued:
“We are guided by our AI principles that we published in 2018. We also cooperate with organizations such as the Border Model Association, OECD, the Hiroshima G7 Organization, the United Nations, and other actors in the field of industry, universities, and governmes.”
Google program in the field of artificial ielligence training
He added that he was to preve a global “artificial ielligence divide”; To this end, Google is creating a $120 million AI Global Opportunity Fund to enable AI training and practice around the world in partnership with local non-profit organizations and non-governmeal organizations.
Finally, Pichai calls for “smart product regulation to reduce harm and resist nationalistic tendencies” — otherwise, he predicts curre regulations could widen the AI divide and limit the benefits of using the technology.
