Global tech
companies top players kicked off work on Monday to draw up global ethical
standards related to data and artificial intelligence, with a "sense of
urgency” voiced by Microsoft's president. For the first Swiss Global Digital
Summit some dozens of high-ranking representatives of the global and Swiss
economies , as well as scientists and academics, met in Geneva aimed at
agreement on ethical guidelines seek to steer technological development. The
participants include high-level representatives from Facebook, Google, Huawei
and IBM and the heads of Credit Suisse, UBS and Adecco to meet again at the
World Economic Forum in Davos next January. Swiss Digital Initiative (SDI) will
be launched there and will present a list of concrete projects which could
include things like the development of a "transparency label" or a
"label". Brad Smith, Microsoft’s president insisted on the importance
that "technology be guided by values, and that those values be translated
into principles and that those principles be pursued by concrete steps."
He also stressed on the need for "transparency" and
"accountability” ensuring the who create technology, including companies like
the one work for remain accountable to the public at large. Microsoft are the
first generation of people who could build machines having the capability and
power, to make decisions that have in the past only been made by people. There
is need to start taking steps with a sense of urgency. Ueli Maurer, Swiss
president who hosted the meeting stated that there is no trust among the public
to support digital development. There is need for transparency, trust and
commitment.
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