ChatGPT has become a buzz word today ever since its launch in 2022.
As the craze around the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots continues to spread, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, in an interview with CBS’ “60 Minutes” that aired on April 16, 2023, warned society to brace for impact.
With AI taking over increasing aspects of our work, jobs including tech jobs will be impacted, disinformation and fake news instances will scale up, human rights violations may abound, and the society at large may come to harm. Pichai calls for society to adapt with AI regulations and Google has even come up with a document of recommendations.
Globally, there is a rising demand to halt some of the AI experiments related to powerful large language models. While the benefits and applications of AI and chatbots are immense, there is fear that we do not totally understand them, yet we are going ahead unprepared and unleashing them on the society.
AI ethics may not be enough, and countries need to soon figure how they could come up with policies and regulations that help reap the benefits of AI while protecting the interests of the society at large. The European Union as already proposed an AI Act and other countries may soon follow. However, reaching a global consensus with standardized principles while retaining the societal values will be a challenge, and how countries, including India, rise up to this challenge will unfold in the days to come.
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