Sundar Pichai also called for a global regulatory framework for AI similar to the treaties on nuclear arms use as he warned that the competition to produce advances in the technology could lead to concerns about safety being pushed aside.
In a TV interview on CBS's 60 minutes, Pichai said the negative side to Al gave him restless nights. "It can be very harmful if deployed wrongly and we don't have all the answers there yet - and the technology is moving fast. So does that keep me up at night? Absolutely," he said.
Alphabet, Google's parent company, owns the UK-based Al business DeepMind and has launched an AI-powered chatbot called Bard in response to ChatGPT, a rival developed by the US tech company OpenAI, which has become a phenomenon since its release in November.
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