A.I. should help, not replace, workers, say CEOs of IBM and Microsoft
Artificial intelligence should enhance human workers, not replace them, at least according to the CEOs of IBM and Microsoft.
Ginni Rometty and Satya Nadella made clear their view of the role of A.I. in a panel discussion at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday, just a few hours after Rometty circulated IBM's three guiding principles for the development of cognitive technologies to company staff.
Less dramatic and snappily expressed than Isaac Asimov's three laws of robotics, IBM's three principles are nevertheless intended to limit the harm the introduction of A.I. technologies causes.
The first thing to understand is the purpose of these technologies. For IBM, Rometty said, "it will not be man or machine: Our purpose is to augment and be in service of what humans do."
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