‘Courts and law enforcement need to build AI capabilities’

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OpenAI and others on 26 July) that we’ve created with a small number of companies, and it will grow. We need to recognize that there’s a common approach to safety standards that we really need. If you look at us and Google—we compete vigorously every day, and yet we have come together.

That’s the type of thing we need to encourage. It also helps when people in governments bring us together, because it’s not a natural act. This is where the White House in the US has played a critical role in bringing us together, and we’ll probably benefit if the government leaders, in particular capitals, continue to do that.

India is an extremely important market for Microsoft, and inevitably it will become even more important every single year. Ultimately, we live in a world where GDP will correlate with population. As countries grow economically and we see economic growth become more broadly distributed around the world, the single best predictor of GDP a decade from now is population.

India has already made the leap to turn that into reality. While India’s digital transformation started nearly two decades ago, in this decade, India has digitally accelerated at a completely different pace. I do think that AI is a game-changer, but I also think that there has been a hype cycle, and AI is not necessarily something that serves everybody.

Look at the past six months—around the world, we went from looking at generative AI as something that actually works to something that will save the world to something that will destroy us all. The truth is, it’s not going to save humanity, or destroy humanity. It is a tool, one that we need to learn how to use, and invest in improving.