ITWeb interviews AI expert Johan Steyn, to get his take on the need for AI regulation and where SA is on this journey.
One of South Africa’s leading light on artificial intelligence, professor Johan Steyn , founder of AIforbusiness.net, spoke to ITWeb, in a broad-ranging interview, about some of the challenges involved in regulating AI and some of the developments that will shape it at global and local levels. #ai #regulation #itwebtv
Regulation typically follows innovation, but getting the right balance between the two can be challenging, especially when a disruptive technology is at the centre of an international race for global superiority, he says in an interview with ITWeb TV.Steyn says it’s difficult for governments across the world, including our own, to move quickly enough, but to do it correctly.
“The best example for me is the EU AI Act, which is still not enacted into law, although the member states have accepted it. There are a lot of principles in it that I think other regions will probably follow; hopefully, we in South Africa will as well, but we have to flavour it from an African, our own society’s, point of view,” he says.
One aspect of the growth of AI that rarely gets discussed, is that it is more compute-intensive than traditional workloads; the additional power, cooling and water consumption involved will have an increased impact on the environment. Steyn also highlights some of the disruptions AI is already causing in society, including the recent strikes in Hollywood over the image and voice rights of actors being signed away and the threat AI will be able to create digital replicas of them.
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