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Microsoft president confirms UK is best placed to drive AI regulation
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Microsoft president Brad Smith is calling for urgent regulation of AI, and his argument is that consumer products like milk and washing machines have more oversight than the companies building artificial intelligence.
Key facts
- His comments come amid rallying cries from tech leaders, including Anthropic’s Dario Amodei and OpenAI’s Sam Altman, to slow the pace of AI development in the wake of several incidents where AI
- Last month, Trump hosted tech leaders of companies, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia, AMD, SpaceX, Meta, and Google, at the White House to discuss AI safety
- In Washington, D.C., people don’t look at the U.K. and they don’t look at London the way they look at Brussels,” he told the BBC
- Smith also said the U.K., and not the U.S. or European Union, is best placed to lead on global safety rules
Summary
On a recent BBC podcast, Smith called AI both a “weapon and a tool” that is putting the world’s cybersecurity at risk and said the “moment has arrived” to institute global safety rules. Smith also said the U.K., and not the U.S. or European Union, is best placed to lead on global safety rules. That role has been under threat in recent weeks, with U.S. president Donald Trump warning against “globalist” organizations, which he claims are interfering with American companies. Despite the president’s pushback, however, Smith argued the U.K. can regulate AI in ways that the U.S. cannot.