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Eric Schmidt, former CEO and Chairman of Google, speaks during the Milken Institute’s global conference in Beverly Hills, California on May 2, 2023.
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Misinformation about the 2024 election will be rampant as new tools make advanced artificial intelligence more accessible, according to Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google who co-founded Schmidt Futures.
“The 2024 election is going to be a mess because social media doesn’t protect us from artificial intelligence that was created wrong,” Schmidt told Andrew Ross Sorkin on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” Monday. “They’re working on it, but they haven’t solved it yet. In fact, the trust and safety groups are getting smaller, not bigger.”
While there is widespread concern about the long-term effects of AI on society, including the possibility of the technology gaining human-like capabilities, Schmidt said that “the short-term danger is misinformation.”
Google recently decided to stop removing false claims about widespread fraud in the 2020 US election from YouTube. She said the decision sought to balance its goals of protecting society and being a forum for open discussion.
Asked about the policy change, Schmidt said social media should allow “freedom of expression for humans, not computers.”
“What social media should do is flag all content, find out who the users are, and hold people accountable if they break the law,” Schmidt said. “It doesn’t solve a problem, you and I disagree on the facts, but it does at least establish a basis because these are human beings who are making these claims.”
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