IBM CEO Arvind Krishna argues that regulators should not allow artificial intelligence developers to hide behind the sweeping legal protections that shield internet and social media firms.
IBM Chair and CEO Arvind Krishna speaks after touring of an IBM facility with President Joe Biden in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., on Oct. 6, 2022. | Andrew Harnik/APWashington should hold companies that develop AI — and those that use it improperly — liable for harms caused by the technology, IBM CEO Arvind Krishna said in an interview.
“Two thousand years of economic history have shown us that if you are legally liable for what you create, it tends to create a lot more accountability,” he Krishna argues that AI should not follow the example of social media, where sweeping legal protections established at the dawn of the internet continue to inoculate companies from legal liability. Instead, he said, AI companies will be more likely to create safer systems that abide by existing laws, such as copyright and intellectual property, if violators could find themselves in court.
He also acknowledged that his own company would be exposed to legal risk under the rules he supports, though he says that is limited in part because IBM primarily builds AI models for other companies, which have a financial interest in obeying the law. By contrast, AI models like OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Meta’s Llama 2 are more publicly accessible and thus susceptible to a range of users.“We can have a voice” but ultimately it is lawmakers who must write the rules, Krishna said.
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