Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt on the challenges of regulating AI

Artificial intelligence was a thing, but not the thing, when Eric Schmidt became CEO of Google in 2001. Sixteen years later, when he stepped down from his post as executive chairman of Google's parent company, Alphabet, the world had changed. Speaking at Princeton University that year, Schmidt declared that we are in "the AI century." Schmidt, who recently chaired the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence, and MIT computer science professor Aleksander Madry discussed how this transition should be managed and its broader implications at the 2022 MIT AI Policy Forum Summit. Their conversation came at a moment when AI is ascendant in both public and private imaginations.