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Regulate AI usage, not development, says IBM
While governments across the world are looking to adapt legal frameworks to accommodate artificial intelligence, the general manager of IBM Asia Pacific said authorities should regulate the application of AI rather than its technological development.
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(Courtesy of IBM)
W
hile governments across the world are looking to adapt legal frameworks to accommodate artificial intelligence, IBM as a supplier of data infrastructure and AI services suggested that authorities refrain from issuing rules that may stifle technological progress.
“Don't regulate the development of AI, the advancement of the science, the evolution of the science. Regulate the uses of AI, and regulate the people who deploy it,” IBM Asia Pacific general manager Paul Burton told The Jakarta Post in an interview on Tuesday.
In recent years, the rapid ascent of generative AI, which mimics human creativity to produce content from poetry to paintings, music and even video, has raised concerns about disinformation and copyright violations, prompting calls for regulations.
One fake video widely spread online in Indonesia purports to show President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo singing Coldplay’s song “Yellow”. Workers in many fields, including graphic designers and translators, have also expressed concerns about the use of AI in the workplace threatening their livelihoods.
“The people that build it and deploy it, if they're building it for malign purposes, or they're deploying it in an irresponsible way, regulate that action. Don't regulate the development of the algorithms, because that has far-reaching effects that are probably not good for society, actually,” Burton said.
The manager noted that AI models in principle processed information fed into them and that their output could be compromised by flawed data provided to them.
“If you're training the model on data that's inappropriate and you get an inappropriate result, you should be held responsible for that,” he said.
