Talking Saturday on the UN Summit of the Future, Google CEO Sundar Pichai described AI as “probably the most transformative know-how but” and introduced a brand new fund for AI schooling and coaching all over the world.
Pichai pointed to 4 broad alternatives he sees for AI and sustainable growth: serving to individuals entry info in their very own language, accelerating scientific discovery, offering alerts and monitoring round local weather disasters, and fueling financial progress.
Pichai acknowledged that AI additionally presents dangers, for instance with deep fakes, although he didn’t point out AI’s impression on the local weather.
He added that he needs to keep away from a worldwide “AI divide” and that Google is making a $120 million World AI Alternative Fund by way of which it would “make AI schooling and coaching out there in communities all over the world” in partnership with native nonprofits and NGOs.
On the identical theme, Pichai known as for “sensible product regulation that mitigates harms and resists nationwide protectionist impulses” — in any other case, he predicted regulation might “widen an AI divide and restrict AI’s advantages.”