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Microsoft<\/a> President Brad Smith<\/a> on Thursday talked up the benefits of regulating artificial intelligence and how the US software giant can help, reiterating a message to a Brussels audience that he delivered in Washington last month.<\/p>\n Together with the Twitter<\/a> owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk<\/a>, Smith has sought to court regulators and lawmakers with calls for regulating AI, a technology that has drawn massive public interest with the arrival of Microsoft-backed OpenAI’s ChatGPT<\/a>.<\/p>\n Big Tech has shared suggestions on how best to regulate AI, which could help to blunt some of the impact of such rules on their business.<\/p>\n The European Union is working out the details of rules known as the AI Act, a global first that could set the benchmark for other countries.<\/p>\n “Our intention is to offer constructive contributions to help inform the work ahead,” Smith said in a blogpost<\/a>.\u00a0He subsequently reiterated his message at a conference in Brussels.<\/p>\n He said Microsoft’s five-point blueprint for governing AI, which includes government-led AI safety frameworks, safety brakes for AI systems that control critical infrastructure and ensuring academic access to AI aligns with the EU’s proposed legislation.<\/p>\n Smith also urged the EU, the United States, G7 countries, India and Indonesia to work together on AI governance in line with their shared values and principles.<\/p>\n \u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2023<\/em><\/p>\n