Keyun Ruan, chief information security officer at Alphabet, Google’s parent company, posed the question, “Why do we need AGI?” in reference to artificial general intelligence — AI systems that can match or exceed human intelligence across a wide range of situations.
Speaking at a conference on human flourishing and technology in the headquarters of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences May 23, Ruan said that determining AGI’s purpose and service to humanity is “a broader conversation that we have never really had at a global level.” ...
The development of AGI requires huge monetary investments, “and there is not an equal size of investments and funding in alignment, in ethics, in human flourishing,” she noted. “We want to get the equation balanced before we race into AGI.” ...
Dennis Snower, an economist and president of the Global Solutions Initiative, told Catholic News Service that today “artificial intelligence is driven largely by business interests with a focus on profits and shareholder value, and these don’t align properly with our needs to flourish both individually and socially.” ...
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