AI offers new opportunities; also brings threats to personal privacy, concerns about fake news: Amitabh Kant

India’s G20 Sherpa Amitabh Kant on Monday said while artificial intelligence (AI) offers exciting new opportunities, such technologies also bring with them new risks, threats to personal privacy and concerns about fake news.

He was speaking at the second G20-SAI Summit of the SAI20 Engagement Group here.

Kant said the world is interconnected today with technology. It plays a crucial role in the functioning and the transformation, and helps to collect, process and disseminate information more quickly and efficiently.