Tools and Weapons: The Promise and The Peril of the Digital Age

by Brad Smith

“If data is collected, it can always be abused,”

Privacy wasn’t just a regulation that we had to abide by, but a fundamental human right that we had an obligation to protect.

Satya explained that unless there was some difference that was of fundamental importance, the costs of maintaining a different process or architecture for a single nation seemed likely to outweigh the potential benefits.

Never let a negotiation narrow to a single issue that can produce only one winner, even if it means holding open some other topics on which agreement might seem in reach.

There is good reason to believe that we’re reaching a liftoff point for many AI scenarios, like the use of a computer to take an order at a drive-through. But more complex tasks in which errors can result in injury or death—like a self-driving car—may well require considerably more time.

This is still true in 2023