CEO’s Fortune interview on AI regulation

Just before their keynote at CogX, our CEO Dr Roeland P.-J. E. Decorte sat down for an interview on AI and regulation with Fortune magazine.

Read the article here. If you hit a paywall; don’t worry, we’ve include our CEO’s comments below.

The excellent piece, written by Chloe Taylor, includes five viewpoints: that of leading AI academic Stuart Russell OBE, that of NATO Assistant Secretary General David van Weel, that of LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, that of the former head of MI6 Alex Younger, and that of our Founder Roeland Decorte.

Roeland Decorte, founder and CEO of Decorte Future Industries, a startup that uses AI to extract health data from sound, told Fortune on the sidelines of the conference that he was “worried the founder voice will get lost” as governments clampdown on artificial intelligence.

“The kind of things we’re seeing tends to be the same group of large corporates, academics, politicians, and policymakers [discussing regulation], and the actual AI founder is never really part of that conversation,” he said.

“AI is like any technology that has lots of potential—it can also be used for wrong. But in order for us to effectively regulate it you don’t just talk to the corporates who scale technologies or the academics who germinate them, you talk to the startups who try out the first commercial applications.”

Decorte also argued that once you reach the stage where a technology has been scaled by a corporation, it will already be “too late,” as the tech will have permeated the public—who can choose to use it “for bad or for good.”

“If you actually believe, like Elon Musk, that AI is a threat to the future of humanity, then the answer to that is not really just regulation, because the regulators will never have the expertise to actually even know what’s in an individual algorithm,” he said. “If your focus is on wanting to avert the Terminator, investing in Explainable AI is the natural route forward.”

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