THE SUN
GOOGLE boss Sundar Pichai has warned that the threat artificial intelligence (AI) has on humanity “keeps me up at night”.
He’s not alone. The sudden acceleration of AI technology has nearly all of society’s stakeholders worried.
In an interview with CBS’ 60 Minutes programme yesterday, Pichai explains that AI technology could “cause a lot of harm” on a “societal level”.
“It can be very harmful if deployed wrongly and we don’t have all the answers there yet – and the technology is moving fast…. So does that keep me up at night? Absolutely,” he says.
In 2020, Pichai likened the impacts of AI on humans of the 21st century to the invention of fire for our predecessors 420million years ago.
AI is set to “impact every product across every company” worldwide, according to Pichai – an near universal opinion among tech executives and public leaders.
