AI must help humanity or it's not worth pursuing: Microsoft CEO Nadella

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has joined the chorus of tech leaders raising concerns about the pacing of frontier artificial intelligence (AI) models, saying if AI’s growth is not helping humanity, it is not worth pursuing. (Photo: PTI)

Any pursuit of superintelligence has to be grounded in the core principle that if the AI we build is not helping humanity and under human control, it's not worth pursuing. We also need to accelerate and spread the benefits of AI, such that they are diffused broadly across…