Sunil Mittal warns AI is going very fast, calls for guardrails to prevent 'accidents'

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- ✓Bharti Enterprises chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal urged governments to develop safeguards for artificial intelligence on Wednesday.
- ✓He warned that technology moves faster than regulation.
- ✓"Are we going to wake up only when an accident happens?" he asked.
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Bharti Enterprises chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal has urged governments to develop safeguards for artificial intelligence as the technology advances faster than regulation. He also outlined Airtel's plans to expand data centre capacity to 1 gigawatt and build a sovereign cloud for Indian businesses, government agencies and defence organisations.
Bharti Enterprises chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal has called for governments to establish safeguards for artificial intelligence (AI), warning that the pace of technological development is making it harder for policymakers to keep up.
Speaking at the Bloomberg New Economy Forum on Wednesday, Mittal said governments needed to begin addressing AI-related risks rather than wait for a serious incident to force action.
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