Microsoft President Says AI Has Fewer Regulations Than Milk. So Now What? - CNET
The next time you pick up a carton of milk, consider this: It has likely passed through more safety inspections than the AI system writing your emails, screening your job application or negotiating with your bank. That, according to Microsoft President Brad Smith, is the problem.
In an interview with ITV last week, Smith said that AI is less regulated than milk and washing machines. He proposed that governments adopt established production safety practices and that AI companies build “kill switches,” a kind of emergency brake that would allow operators to shut down a system that begins behaving in an unsafe or unintended way.
Smith’s comments come amid growing public concern that voluntary industry commitments to safety — a form of toothless self-regulation — are not enough to manage systems that can influence decisions, handle sensitive data and, in the wrong hands, enable cyberattacks. Recent cases of so-called “rogue...
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