As the generative AI race heats up, so does the potential for it to have an ‘incredibly harmful impact’
February 14, 2023 • 4 min read | By
Ivy Liu
Despite the excitement around the potential of generative AI, some warn there’s still room for caution amid concerns about misinformation, cybersecurity, e-commerce fraud and data privacy.
The AI race of 2023 has been full speed ahead with tech giants in the U.S. and Asia quickly rolling out plans for incorporating AI tools into their platforms. Last week, Microsoft, Google, Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent all announced new capabilities for their products and services. But as tech giants and startups build and scale tools for AI-generated text, images and videos, cybersecurity experts say it’s important to determine who should get access.
Lessons from recent history could help inform how to prepare for the proliferation of generative AI. For example, Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica scandal from just a few years ago sparked new data privacy debates over who should and shouldn’t have access to user data across social networks and the broader ad-tech ecosystem.