Google explains how it wants to use AI and the need to get it ‘right’ – Times of India

Google has been heavily invested in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) across its products, services and more. In the last couple of months, AI has caught the fancy of the mainstream population and not just the tech enthusiasts. Almost every tech company talks about using AI responsibly and Google has now posted a blog where CEO Sundar Pichai and other senior company executives have expressed their thoughts about AI and more.
In the blog, Google executives said that the company’s approach to developing and harnessing the potential of AI is “grounded in our founding mission—to organise the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful—and it is shaped by our commitment to improve the lives of as many people as possible.”
Google believes that AI is a foundational and transformational technology that will provide compelling and helpful benefits to people and society through its capacity to assist, complement, empower, and inspire people in almost every field of human endeavour. “It has the potential to contribute to tackling some of society’s most pressing challenges and opportunities, from the every day to the more creative and imaginative,” said the executives in the blog post.

How Google wants to use AI

Google said it is working on bringing breakthrough innovations into the real world to assist people and benefit society “everywhere through our infrastructure, tools, products, and services, as well as through enabling and working with others to benefit society.” Google also said that its innovations are already assisting and benefiting people (in some cases billions of people), communities, businesses, and organisations, and society broadly—with more such innovations still to come.

The ‘risks’ of using and developing AI

Google said that since AI is an emerging tech, it does pose various and evolving complexities and risks and it wants to address these risks. “That’s why we as a company consider it imperative to pursue AI responsibly. We are committed to leading and setting the standard in developing and shipping useful and beneficial applications, applying ethical principles grounded in human values, and evolving our approaches as we learn from research, experience, users, and the wider community,” said Google.
Getting AI ‘right’, according to Google, must be a collective effort involving researchers, developers, users (individuals, businesses, and other organisations), governments, regulators, and citizens. “It is critical that we collectively earn public trust if AI is to deliver on its potential for people and society. As a company, we embrace the opportunity to work with others to get AI right,” the blog post noted.