The Head of Google Says Future AI Must Align with Human Values

AI is the foundational tech at Google and its parent company Alphabet, CEO Sundar Pichai told the audience at this year's Code conference in Los Angeles. He pointed out the "extraordinary" successes of the Google AI and DeepMind teams in areas such as large language models and the AlphaFold project, which showed the underlying structure of 200 million proteins. He said Google was now applying deep computer science and AI to all its products, from search to its work with pharma companies with AlphaFold to self-driving cars. But, he added, it is "important that we develop AI aligned with human values." Conference host Kara Swisher showed a 2016 interview in which Pichai (then interviewed by the now-retired Walt Mossberg) said he expected we would have true "conversational AI" to help get things done in the next 5 to 10 years.