Technology such as AI is racing ahead of laws to protect against intrusion into privacy, Microsoft’s president believesGeorge Orwell’s dystopian vision of the world in his novel 1984 “could come to pass in 2024” if artificial intelligence is not better regulated, the president of Microsoft has warned. Brad Smith has called on politicians around the world to enact stricter laws to goven the development and use of AI. SponsoredHe warned that Orwell’s idea of a government knowing what its citizens are doing and saying at all times is already becoming a reality in some parts of the world. Smith told the BBC’s Panorama: “If we don’t enact the laws that will protect the public in the future, we are going to find the technology racing ahead, and it’s going to be very difficult to catch up.”The Panorama programme — titled

Source: The Times May 27, 2021 16:04 UTC