Google CEO: 'Artificial intelligence needs to be regulated'

Google CEO Sundar Pichai is calling for governments around the world to regulate artificial intelligence, saying the sensitive technology should not be used to "support mass surveillance or violate human rights." However, Pichai -- the top executive at Google as well as its parent company Alphabet -- also argued that governments should not go too far as they work to rein in high-stakes technologies like facial recognition and self-driving vehicles. His speech in Europe and companion op-ed come as Europe weighs new ethics rules for artificial intelligence and the White House urges a light-touch approach to regulating technology. "There is no question in my mind that artificial intelligence needs to be regulated," Pichai wrote in the Financial Times. "It is too important not to. The only question is how to approach it."