{"id":163735,"date":"2023-05-12T13:22:55","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T18:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/we-shouldnt-regulate-ai-until-we-see-meaningful-harm-microsoft-economist-to-wef"},"modified":"2023-05-12T13:22:55","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T18:22:55","slug":"we-shouldnt-regulate-ai-until-we-see-meaningful-harm-microsoft-economist-to-wef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/we-shouldnt-regulate-ai-until-we-see-meaningful-harm-microsoft-economist-to-wef","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We Shouldn\u2019t Regulate AI Until We See Meaningful Harm\u2019: Microsoft Economist to WEF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QvgBd3O3_WI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft\u2019s corporate VP and chief economist tells the World Economic Forum (WEF) that AI will be used by bad actors, but \u201cwe shouldn\u2019t regulate AI until we see some meaningful harm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the WEF Growth Summit 2023 during a panel on \u201c<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/events\/the-growth-summit-jobs-and-opportunity-for-all-2023\/sessions\/growth-hotspots-harnessing-the-generative-ai-revolution\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Growth Hotspots: Harnessing the Generative AI Revolution<\/a><\/strong>,\u201d Microsoft\u2019s Michael Schwarz argued that when it came to AI, it would be best not to regulate it until something bad happens, so as to not suppress the potentially greater benefits.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong><em>I am quite confident that yes, AI will be used by bad actors; and yes, it will cause real damage; and yes, we have to be very careful and very vigilant<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d Schwarz told the WEF panel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft\u2019s corporate VP and chief economist tells the World Economic Forum (WEF) that AI will be used by bad actors, but \u201cwe shouldn\u2019t regulate AI until we see some meaningful harm.\u201d Speaking at the WEF Growth Summit 2023 during a panel on \u201cGrowth Hotspots: Harnessing the Generative AI Revolution,\u201d Microsoft\u2019s Michael Schwarz argued that when [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}