Google CEO Sundar Pichai: This is why AI must be regulated ZDNet

Google CEO Sundar Pichai has explained why the world's governments need to impose regulations on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) beyond principles published by a company. Pichai outlined his thoughts on AI regulation in the Financial Times today, reflecting on Google's own AI principles, which it published in mid-2018 following an outcry from employees over its work on the Pentagon's Project Maven. The project applied Google-developed object recognition AI to drone surveillance technology. Google vowed in its AI principles not to create AI that would harm people, but Pichai noted that "principles that remain on paper are meaningless" without action, pointing to the tools Google has developed and open-sourced to test AI for "fairness". But he also admits that with every major innovation comes potential negative side effects.