Microsoft president warns AI's rapid growth echoes social media's early optimism and risks.
Microsoft President, Brad Smith speaking at the B20 Summit in New Delhi, India. Image: Sajjad Hussain / AFP
Rapid advancements in AI have stoked global alarm over the technology’s potential for disinformation, misuse and upheaval of the labour market. The rise of AI has raised both excitement and concerns about its potential to improve or replace tasks done by humans. A United Nations report this week said AI was more likely to augment jobs than to destroy them, adding nonetheless that the tech would alter work intensity and the autonomy of workers.
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