The head of KPMG's technology consulting area Portugal considers, in an interview with Lusa, that it will be difficult to put a brake on the AI, defending the need to find a compromise solution between risk management and dependence.
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Varias have been the voices to appeal to slow down the pace of development of artificial intelligence (IA), since the Pope, passing through the North American Anthropic, as by the executive president (CEO) of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI), Malo Bourgon, who in a recent interview with Lusa considered that it is possible to slow down this technology with government intervention.
According to Rui Gonçalves, responsible for KPMG Portugal’s head of technology consulting, which also integrates the group’s ‘global AI council’, considers that stopping artificial intelligence is something that is difficult to do.
“Having the AI, putting a pause button (...), I don’t know if this is possible because the decision centers on this will be so scattered (...) around the world and none of them, for sure, is in Portugal”, he says.
The decision centers of the AI models are in San Francisco, Seattle (United States) or Yangzhou, China, points out.
“Neither in Europe will they be”, so “I think the issue should be more whether the real choice is to speed up or slow down a little bit and decide at what pace it is regulated and that more risk management mechanisms are created here without blocking the ability to build”, continues the responsible.
The question is “how can we speed up or slow down this issue, putting more regulation or managing the risk more efficiently without strangling the ability to build”, he suggests, pointing out that in Europe there is no capacity to stop the AI and much less in Portugal.
Just to get an idea, Europe “imports more than 80% of our digital technologies”, according to a recent study.
In addition, “70% of the founding models leave the United States”, then, of the remaining 30%, “25% to 29% will leave China and 1% will leave Europe,” Rui Gonçalves says.
In addition, putting “brakes in an unregulated way will only increase the dependency on time,” warns KPMG Portugal’s manager.
This is because if there is a brake, there are those who do not comply with this measure, creating greater asymmetry in the development of technology.
“So the theme that arises (...) is to try to find a compromise solution here between risk management and management of dependency in other countries,” Rui Gonçalves concludes.