STOCKHOLM, Jan 24 (Reuters) – Nvidia Inc (NVDA.O) Chief Executive Jensen Huang said on Tuesday that the nascent field of artificial intelligence will create powerful tools that will require legal regulation and yet-to-be-established social norms.
Huang is one of the most prominent figures in artificial intelligence because Nvidia’s chips are used widely in the field, including supercomputers built by Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O ) for start-up OpenAI, which the company said on Monday. Earned billions of dollars invested.
Huang spoke at an event in Stockholm, where officials said Tuesday they were upgrading Sweden’s fastest supercomputer with tools from Nvidia to develop large language models capable of speaking Swedish fluently.
“Keep in mind that if you take a step back and think about all the things that are socially convenient or beneficial or good in life, it might also have some potential harm,” Huang said.
Lawmakers such as U.S. House Democrat Ted Lieu of California have called for the creation of a U.S. federal agency to oversee artificial intelligence. In an op-ed in The New York Times on Monday, Lieu argued that systems such as facial recognition used by law enforcement could be mistaking innocent people from minority groups.
Huang said engineering standards bodies need to set standards for building safe AI systems, similar to how medical institutions set rules for safe practice of medicine. But he also said that laws and social norms will play a key role in AI.
“What are the social norms for using it? There have to be legal norms for using it,” Huang said. “Everything is going on right now. The fact that we’re all talking about it puts us in a better position to end up in a good place.”
Reporting by Supantha Mukherjee in Stockholm; Writing by Stephen Nellis in San Francisco; Editing by Stephen Coates
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