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CEO of Microsoft AI speaks about the future of artificial intelligence at Aspen Ideas Festival. NBC NEWS. 25 June.

You know, look, the economics of information are about to radically change because we are gonna reduce the cost of production of knowledge to zero marginal cost. And this is just a very difficult thing for people to intuit. But in 15 or 20 years time, we will be producing new scientific and cultural knowledge at almost zero marginal cost. It will be widely open source an available to everybody. And I think that is going to be, you know, a true inflection point in history of our species, because what are we collectively as an organism of humans, other than a knowledge and intellectual production engine. We produce knowledge, our science makes us better. And so what we really want in the world, in my opinion, are new engines that can turbocharge discovery and invention. (16:00)

[regarding EU AI Act and Safety]. Friction is going to be our friend here. And that is a different, you know, that is a different reality to what we’ve experienced in the past where every second that we can gain in putting technology out into the world is always producing net benefit.  And I just think, you know, these technologies are becoming so powerful, they will be be so intimate, they’ll be so ever-present, that this is a moment where it’s fine to take stock and think, and if it takes 6 months or longer, 18 months longer, or, you know, maybe even longer than that. It’s time well spent. . (32:08)

AI should not be able to participate in elections. Democracy is sacrosanct. Through all of its faults and strengths. It is something that humans participate in. The AI shouldn’t. In 2030, or 2035, we’re going to have to face the reality that some people will feel so attached to that personal AI that they will advocate for personhood. Just as there are some people who advocated for the animals, you know, in kind of more extreme animal rights cases. And I, again, this is a personal view, but this is something that we’ll have to debate. I think we should take a hard line on that. I just want to know that democracy is for humans and other kind of forms of being shouldn’t really be able to participate.  (37:40)

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