If A.I. Is Not Regulated, 'We Are Going to Be Sorry'

Here’s a first for Leadership Next: an episode that begins with a story about being mauled by an elephant. The victim of that event: Tom Siebel, CEO of C3.ai, and a long-time Silicon Valley entrepreneur. Almost equally as unusual, in this episode Siebel lays out the case for government regulation of artificial intelligence – not something you expect to hear from the leader of an A.I. company. “If we don't regulate this, we're going to have to live in a very scary place,” Siebel tells Alan Murray and Ellen McGirt. C3.ai is a provider of enterprise AI software, and Siebel feels strongly that companies who fail to adopt A.I. in a big way will ultimately be left behind. But he freely admits the dangers inherent in running human systems with the technology. He talks about the line his company draws in the sand when choosing where to apply A.I.  

Also in the episode, Siebel talks about the “data lake” the company has created to help fight COVID-19, and his funding of a group called “Siebel Scholars.” 

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