How do we make sure AI isn't used negatively? | Brad Smith, Microsoft | The Big Question | HIGHLIGHT

I do think unfortunately every technology ultimately becomes both a tool and a weapon that's the reality and AI will be a very valuable tool but there will be people who will weaponise it. One of the ways they will do that is create these so-called 'deep fakes', it could be a video or an audio that would look like you or sound like you but it would not be you and then you think about that in the context of an election somebody can put it out about a political candidate and yet that candidate wil

l have never seen or said anything that people are seeing and hearing. We have to address that. And so I guess the big question is how do we protect against the negative use of AI without inhibiting innovation? I think our purpose is, in this era of time, hopefully to create  technology that is going to help the world solve the problems we need to solve, say whether we're talking about climate change or the protection of democracy and we're also helping the world navigate through a fundamental t

echnological evolution or maybe even revolution especially when we think about the role of artificial intelligence. The second thing we have to do and what we are doing is using AI to detect the harmful uses of AI and to work hard to thwart it or disrupt it and I think that is equally important using AI as a defensive shield, even if someone else wants to use it as a sword.