With AI having become the frontline of an intense global competition for economic and geopolitical power, speed is rewarded, scale is celebrated, and market dominance is prized above all else. Under such conditions, we risk forgetting the most important question: Whom is this intelligence ultimately meant to serve?
NEW DELHI—The defining question of our time is no longer whether AI will transform our world. It already has. What the world needs now is a moral compass for the technology, which is why I introduced the concept of Compassionate AI to the 12,000-plus delegates from 170 countries who attended the AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva earlier this month.