Ed Watal joins the Lexicon podcast to look into AI’s implications and discusses if there is a path for AI to develop ethically.In a rapidly advancing digital age, artificial intelligence is at an intersection where it must decide whether to pursue technological progress or resolve its ethical dilemmas.
“We saw very recently the case with Scarlett Johansson, where she had explicitly told OpenAI not to use her voice and then they use her likeness. So organizations for their own progress and trying to keep the attention of their audience are going to continue to do those things,” he adds. In self-regulating, how do AI companies balance rapid growth with responsible development? This has been highlighted recently with the departures and rumors circulating OpenAI’s ethics team. “We should progress and we should accelerate… but you need guardrails,” Watal states. “It’s pretty telltale when people leave those organizations because they feel that they can’t make the change.”