Sundar Pichai calls for regulating Artificial Intelligence but with a careful approach

Of late, there has been a lot of debate on how the Artificial Intelligence (AI) should be regulated. Governments around the world have stressed that AI should be governed by a strong set of regulations. Sundar Pichai, who leads both Google and Alphabet Inc, has extended his support to these growing calls for regulating AI.

“There is no question in my mind that artificial intelligence needs to be regulated. It is too important not to…The only question is how to approach it,” Pichai wrote in an editorial piece for The Financial Express.

While the Google CEO does call for regulating AI, he suggests that a careful approach must be taken for introducing regulations in AI. In his op-ed, Pichai cautioned that tech companies cannot build new technologies and allow the “market forces decide how it will be used.”