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Brad Smith said that after the Arab Spring, social media was widely seen as democracy's savior but within four or five years was weaponized against democracy.
“everyone said social media is going to be the savior of democracy, and then within four or five years, it had been weaponized and turned against democracy itself.”
The Paris Call for trust and security in cyberspace was launched in Paris in 2018 under President Emmanuel Macron's leadership, and Microsoft participated.
“So the Paris Call for trust and security in cyberspace was really invented, as the name suggests, in Paris under President Macron's leadership in 2018. Microsoft participated in that.”
The Christchurch Call was led by New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern with help from tech companies including Microsoft after the Christchurch massacre.
“the Christchurch call was really led by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern with the help of tech companies, including our own, in the wake of the Christchurch massacre.”
Brad Smith said his reaction to the first draft of the EU AI Act was that it would regulate Europe out of AI use.
“I was certainly one person among many who who saw the first draft and said, oh, my goodness, this is gonna regulate Europe out of AI use”
Brad Smith said the United States leads in developing large language models such as GPT-4.
“the US. is leading when it comes to the development of large scale, say, large language models, like GPT four.”
Brad Smith described the Microsoft-OpenAI partnership as competing with Google and its DeepMind acquisition, with Anthropic as a third frontier group.
“you have every day this partnership with OpenAI and Microsoft competing with, say, Google and its acquisition of Deep Mind.”
Brad Smith said China is ahead in narrow AI such as vision and face identification because it collects so much data.
“Narrow, special-purpose AI uses like vision, where they just have so much data that they collect and AI they develop based on identifying people's faces”
Brad Smith said the United Arab Emirates holds a strong leadership position in AI built on biometric and genomic data.
“You actually see a country like the United Arab Emirates in a very strong, uh, leadership position.”
Brad Smith said roughly 95% of Microsoft's revenue comes from democracies, as ranked by the Economist Intelligence Unit.
“roughly 95% of Microsoft's revenue comes from the democracies of the world, and 5% comes from the other half.”
Brad Smith said China accounts for only about 1.5% of Microsoft's revenue.
“We're present in China today, even though it's only about one and a half percent of Microsoft's revenue.”
Brad Smith said Microsoft has special controls to stop the Chinese military from using its technology.
“we have special controls in place, for example, so that the Chinese military is not using it.”
Brad Smith said Microsoft is basically not present in Russia.
“And then you get to a country like Russia, where we're basically not present at all.”
Brad Smith said Microsoft has 758 employees in Norway.
“the 758 employees we have in Norway.”
Brad Smith said the Russian government runs a large-scale network producing misleading information in twenty-three languages, which Microsoft monitors.
“which operates a global at scale network to generate information designed to mislead the public, and it puts it out in twenty-three languages.”
Brad Smith said the war in Ukraine shows defence has proven stronger than offence, including in cyber and information conflicts.
“That, to me, is the fundable fundamental lesson of the war in Ukraine, where defense has proven to be stronger than offense.”
Brad Smith said Microsoft detects new cyberattacks, writes protective code and distributes it to devices worldwide within minutes to a couple of hours.
“we detect the threat. We are able to code the virus or protection, say the the vaccine, to stop it, and then we're able to distribute that code”
Brad Smith said the US National Institute of Standards and Technology created an AI risk management framework building on its cybersecurity work.
“the National Institute of Standards and Technology, NIST. They've created an AI risk management framework that I think has a lot of promise”
Brad Smith said Microsoft encouraged a US executive order requiring federal AI purchases only from companies self-certifying compliance with the NIST framework.
“the federal government would say procure AI for certain uses only from companies who are self-certifying that they're implementing the NIST AI risk management framework.”
Brad Smith used bus emergency brakes as an analogy for how common standards let local and national laws work.
“You get on a bus, it has an emergency brake.”
Brad Smith compared AI to Apollo 11, saying the goal was to bring astronauts back safely and AI needs the same balance.
“we should remember that with Apollo eleven, the goal was not just to send a man to the moon. It was to bring him back safely to Earth.”