Microsoft president Brad Smith believes that artificial intelligence can be "a powerful weapon, and there will be some around the world who will try to use it in that way. We need to work together to develop defensive AI technologies that create a capable shield to resist and defeat the actions of any evildoer on the planet". The head of the company that is integrating the AI of ChatGPT into its products has referred to this in his opening speech at the event The digital transformation of Europe: seizing the opportunity of AI, held today in Brussels, in which he has shown the willingness of your company to collaborate with the authorities based on regulations such as the upcoming European AI law.
Brad Smith has called for focusing "on the challenges and risks that AI can create" and managing them effectively. He has given as an example, the role that he attributed to social networks in the spread of democracy during the Arab Spring. "However -he has observed-, five years after that, we learned that social networks, like so many other technologies before them, would become both a weapon and a tool, in this case, directed against democracy itself" .
Smith has assured that Microsoft is committed "to developing and implementing AI in a safe and responsible way" and has admitted that, out of a sense of responsibility, control of this technology "should not be left solely in the hands of technology companies". "In short, technology companies will have to step up, and governments will have to act faster," she said. In his opinion, you always have to make sure "that the AI remains under human control."
Microsoft has developed a five-point plan for artificial intelligence that is to implement and develop new government-led AI security frameworks, require effective security brakes for AI systems that control critical infrastructure, develop a comprehensive legal framework and regulatory framework based on the AI technology architecture, promote transparency and ensure academic and non-profit access to AI, and seek new public-private partnerships to use AI as an effective tool to address the inevitable societal challenges of AI. new technologies.
The president of Microsoft has been in favor of taking measures already today "to apply security brakes to AI systems that control critical infrastructures." It has stated that "high-risk AI systems, related to critical infrastructures (e.g. transport, power grids, water systems) or systems that can lead to serious violations of fundamental rights or other significant damage, could require agencies additional international regulatory bodies, based on the International Civil Aviation Organization model, for example".
