Microsoft's Vice Chair and President, Brad Smith, challenges the technology industry's "manufactured alarm" regarding artificial intelligence, asserting that influential voices have consistently misjudged the pace of disruption, been hypocritical in proposed solutions, and careless about human costs. Smith's remarks, made from Microsoft's Redmond campus, accompany a new paper analyzing AI's impact on the workforce over decades, urging against panic.
He highlights recent university commencement ceremonies where mentions of AI drew boos as a "powerful wake-up call" for the tech sector, indicating a broken relationship with the public. This reaction from young people, historically early adopters, signals a significant problem that the industry should not ignore, especially as calls to slow AI development ring hollow when companies simultaneously accelerate it.
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