You can’t ban artificial intelligence like you can’t ban knives. This claim of Jeff Bezosthe creator and historical head of Amazon, has attracted attention.
For one of the great fortunes on the planet, at times the first, “We don’t want to accidentally ban the knife because it can be misused“Knives are important tools and yes, from time to time someone misuses them, but you can’t say that the solution is to say: ‘Okay, no more data centers, right? No more knives.’ That’s not a smart approach. for regulation”.
This is how Jeff Bezos expressed himself in an interview for the American media CNBCwhere he defends apply some type of legal control about the expansion and use of AI and data centers, but not with prohibitionist positions.
“There is a lot to be said for proper government regulation to improve product safety, etc.,” he said in the interview. “And I don’t see why it won’t be applied at some point to the new tools that AI is developing.”
In his opinion, what needs to be done regular is “the application level”he added.
To the mind behind the giant Amazon, AI is not secondary. Since stepping down as Amazon CEO in 2021, Jeff Bezos became co-CEO of Prometheusa physics AI company co-founded with Vikram “Vik” Bajaj, head of Google’s life sciences business called Verily.
At the moment, Prometheus has raised $12 billion (slightly less than 10.4 billion euros) in a financing round. In this regard, Bezos noted that this amount “is an important part of the funds we have raised.”
“And one of the reasons why we have had to raise a significant amount of funds is because what we do requires a lot of processing power“, he clarified immediately afterwards in his speech at the CNBC.
Asked about the purposes of Prometheus, Bezos made it clear that his young company does not seek to manufacture robotssino create AI models that transform the future of engineering and manufacturing, thus achieving his goal of creating an “artificial general engineer.”
